当地居民说好像发生过核爆炸。

Local residents said it was as if there had been a nuclear explosion.

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每个村庄的居民说着完全不同的语言。

The residents of each village speak a completely different language.

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然而每个村庄的居民说着完全不同的语言。

Yet the residents of each village speak a completely different language.

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And so many scholars, and many people, have remarked that it's not a small irony that the Ancient Near Eastern people with one of the, or perhaps the most lasting legacy, was not a people that built and inhabited one of the great centers of Ancient Near Eastern civilization.

很多学者，很多人都说，拥有世界上最永恒遗产的,古代近东居民，并不是那些修建并居住于，古代近东文明中心的人,这是不是很讽刺呢。

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