These could reflect the declining weight of the human skeleton that seems to have accompanied the switch to settled life, which started some 15,000 years ago.

这能反映始于大约15，000年前向定居生活的转变时，伴随而来的人类骨架重量的下降。

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He decided to lead a more settled life with his partner.

他决定与他的伴侣过一种更为安定的生活。

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The herdsmen are living a settled life instead of roaming from place to place in search of water and grass.

牧民们过着定居的生活，不再为了找水草而到处游牧。

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She settled into forms she used for the rest of her life.

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Abel is a keeper of sheep. He represents the nomadic pastoralist, unlike Cain who is the tiller of soil, so he represents more settled urban life.

亚伯是一个牧羊人，代表着不断迁徙的牧场主，而该隐是一个农夫，他代表在城市定居的人。

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It doesn't reflect the interests of people who have been wandering around nomadically. It has laws that deal with settled agrarian life.

而并没有反映对在旷野流浪的人们的注意,它还记录了管理农民定居生活的法律。

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His decision is personal, driven by family bereavement and the wish to pursue a slightly more settled life.

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Victoria is holding out for some kind of therapy that would give her boys a more settled life.

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But elsewhere farming and, therefore, settled life was impossible in the steppes, so the nomads scratched out a meagre existence by herding sheep and goats, and breeding horses and camels, living in close-knit tribal groups.

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