This region was settled by the Dutch in the nineteenth century.

荷兰人于十九世纪来到这一地区定居。

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After this remote Pacific island was settled by the Polynesians, it remained isolated for centuries.

在波利尼西亚人定居后，这个偏远的太平洋岛屿几个世纪以来一直与世隔绝。

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The vast grasslands of the High Plains in the central United States were settled by farmers and ranchers in the 1880s.

在19世纪80年代，美国中部的高地平原大草原是由农民和牧场主开垦的。

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Clay said the major differences separating the country could be settled by facing facts.

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I think it's very important to notice that some of these places that were big in the Mycenaean world were entirely abandoned and not settled again by the Greeks.

我认为值得注意的是,这些地方中有些是,在迈锡尼文明中占据重要地位的城邦,就这样被彻底遗弃了,而且并没有被希腊人重建

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There is an expansion of the Greek world already by the tenth century, and these folks are now settled down, so that some of these cities are in fact among the most important cities sending out colonies of their own.

希腊世界不停地扩展,一直到10世纪,那些逃亡者才安定下来,因此,这当中的,一些重要城市都拥有自己隶属的殖民地

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When finished, its golf courses will stretch into the farmlands of Kanata--first settled by Welshmen.

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Bourbon was likely born in the 1770s when present-day Kentucky was first settled by Europeans.

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In what imaginary universe can such a fundamental conflict of interests be settled by compromise?

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