The rats arrived along with the settlers, and in just a few years, Hunt and Lipo calculate, they would have overrun the island.

随着定居者的到来，老鼠也来到了这座岛。亨特和利普计算，仅用几年的时间，老鼠就会在这座岛上泛滥。

youdao

They would have prevented the reseeding of the slow-growing palm trees and thereby doomed Rapa Nui's forest, even without the settlers' campaign of deforestation.

即使没有定居者的滥伐森林运动，他们也会阻止生长缓慢的棕榈树重新播种，从而毁灭拉帕努伊的森林。

youdao

Unfortunately, it took the explorers and the settlers who followed only a few decades to decimate a large part of these resources.

不幸的是，仅仅几十年以后，探险家和随后而来的定居者就摧毁了大部分的资源。

youdao

The settlers had plans to remove water from the area and in the eighteen eighties developers began digging drainage canals.

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The settlers were enclosing land and engaged in wars with the Native Americans.

殖民者在圈地，并挑起了与印第安人的战争。

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Now, recruiting is tremendously important because you need to have a certain number of settlers to make the settlement viable.

招募是极其重要的,因为你需要有一定数量的移民,来维持居住地的运转

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Some 30, 000 Palestinians live in this part of the city, together with the settlers.

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At the same time, Mr Sharon retains a basic sympathy with the settlers' goals.

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His critics say they are half-hearted, too, because ideologically the prime minister sympathises with the settlers.

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