Once the soil has been removed by erosion, only the passage of centuries or millennia will enable new soil to form.

一旦土壤被侵蚀，新的土壤只有经过几个世纪或几千年才能形成。

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Not only do melting snow and ice flow directly into the sea, they also form torrential under-ice streams that lubricate the passage of glaciers toward the ocean.

融化的冰雪不仅直接流入大海，还在冰下形成湍流，为冰川滑向海洋大开方便之门。

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Choose the correct order of the following sentences to form a passage.

把下列句子排好顺序组成一篇短文。

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So with that said, perhaps just to add to that, the fourth passage: "Beauty is the form of the purposiveness of an object so far as it is perceived in it without any representation of a purpose."

所以据上所述，啊，再加一点，现在看，第四篇文章：，“美是事物存在的目的,尽管这种合目的性并不是显而易见的，你可能要问了“

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In our society, retirement, finances and investing have changed drastically, making it important to create some form of ritualistic passage that investors need to undergo to ensure they have the knowledge, skill, and determination required to adequately plan and prepare for their future.

FORBES: Investor Rites of Passage - Part 1

In the right circumstances these channels will allow the passage of sodium ions (the liquid to be investigated must have these added in the form of sodium chloride, or common salt, if they are not present naturally).

ECONOMIST: Medical diagnostics

We thus tend to infuse the passage of time with meaning and to see agency in it as well, whether it takes the form of God's supernatural agency in settling moral scores or nature knocking us off the pedestal of our technological hubris.

WSJ: May 21 and the Enduring Appeal of the Apocalypse