They planted a stake in the ground.

他们在地上栽了一根木桩。

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They planted a flag on the summit.

他们在山顶上插了一面旗子。

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They planted some watermelon.

他们种了些西瓜。

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They planted fewer food crops for local use.

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Colony is a Latin word ultimately for colonia and the Roman colonies were, first of all,garrisons that they planted in land they had conquered to keep the people quiet.

殖民地是拉丁词Colony的衍生,对于古罗马的殖民地来说,首先,派兵驻守占领的城市,震慑当地民众

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But farmers had learned the hard way they couldn't rely on just one crop, so they planted more corn, peaches,and figs.

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They planted a big vegetable garden behind their new clapboard home high on a hill overlooking open farmland.

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And amazingly, they planted 100, 000 trees in less than six years.

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Two Iraqi men have been arrested in the US state of Kentucky, over allegations they planted explosive devices targeting US troops in Iraq.

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