They built a wall to avoid soil being washed away.

他们建了一堵墙防止土壤流失。

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They built a city with waterways instead of streets.

他们用水路代替街道建造了一座城市。

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They built a house in the centre of the park, not far from where we're standing now, but this burnt down in 1980 and the De Quincies then sold the land.

他们在公园中心建了一座房子，离我们现在站的地方不远，但这座房子在1980年被烧毁了，德昆西夫妇随后卖掉了那块土地。

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For a while, they settled in the state of Illinois, in a town they built and called Nauvoo.

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and they built a lot of residentials and lots of residence and bars and you know,

那里建起了很多居民区和住宅，有了酒吧、

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the answer is, "When they were built, they were built in such a way as to have certain instructions that they begin to follow out."

答案是,在他们被创造出来时,就被构造成一种拥有特定指令,使它们能够依之开始工作的样子

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They built a beautifully disruptive device and are reaping the cash flow from it.

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They built a three-story house in a nice neighborhood, with 12-foot ceilings, marble floors and teak woodwork.

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They built a business called Exploration Nation around Enzo and his friends learning and teaching STEM curriculum on-line.

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