Short segments of the road had been observed by earlier explorers, Bown said, but they failed to realize its significance or follow up on their observations.

鲍恩说，早期的探险者已经观测过这条路的一小段，但他们没有意识到它的重要性，也没有继续进行观测。

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The later species all depend on the preparations of the earlier one, for the actions of the zebra alter the vegetation to suit the stomachs of the wildebeest, topi, and gazelle.

后来的物种都依赖于早期物种的准备工作，因为斑马的行动改变了植被，以适应角马、黄羊和瞪羚的胃。

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Perhaps even earlier, there had emerged on the steppes of Inner Eurasia the distinctive types of pastoralism that were to dominate the region's history for several millennia.

也许更早的时候，在欧亚大陆内部的大草原上就出现了独特的游牧文化，这种文化主导了该地区几千年的历史。

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Earlier studies by the 2 researchers described the effects of social networks on obesity and efforts to stop smoking.

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He published a treatise that he had written earlier on grammar, inventing his own system for the understanding and the learning of the Latin language.

发表了一篇他之前写的关于语法的论文，在这篇论文中他创建了自己的一套理解和学习,拉丁文的体系。

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Some people asked me, if they bought the earlier version of the text, you can find the translation to the earlier version of the text on these question numbers.

有人问我，如果他们买了这本书的早期版本，你们找到这本书早期版本的翻译,关于这些问题的数字。

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These are big changes for marketers, who today spend the majority of their budgets on the earlier stages of the customer lifecycle, rather than the later stages of relationship building.

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The problems Ofsted found earlier this year centred on the earlier stages of intervention, when vulnerable children are first assessed.

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They had been briefed on the earlier wave of sit-ins in Durham, and had been part of a series of movement meetings in activist churches.

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