They are only doing what is necessary to prevent wholesale destruction of vegetation.

他们只是在做为防止植被遭大规模破坏而必须做的事情。

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Though he is as capable as any Decepticon of wholesale destruction, he carries twin blades for a reason.

尽管摧毁和其他的霸天虎们一样有能力，能够进行大规模的破坏，但是他仍佩带双刀。

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The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

如果自由的代价是追求自由者的毁灭，那么追求自由的事业就诚为可笑了。

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Just what could have plausibly caused such wholesale destruction down to meter-sized rocky objects is open for debate.

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In the 1970s and 1980s we gradually came to accept the wholesale destruction of working communities in ship building, coal mining and textiles.

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The sudden and wholesale destruction of the pseudo-property system for information goods is not the solution, though left unchecked that is the natural response of the transaction cost-free Internet.

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