它的象征意义可能来自于橄榄树需要很长时间才能结出果实，所以橄榄只能在长久的和平时期才能被成功种植。

The symbolism may come from the fact that the olive tree takes a long time to produce fruit, so olives could only be cultivated successfully in long periods of peace.

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你全境有橄榄树，却不得其油抹身，因为树上的橄榄不熟自落了。

You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.

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而俄罗斯期望获取可观的利润：其多年冻土释放后的干草原，将很快布满大量的橄榄树；一系列的管道将把特级初榨橄榄油向西输送。

Russia, however, expects to profit handsomely: its steppes, freed of permafrost, will soon host vast olive groves; a series of pipelines will send extra-virgin supplies westwards.

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If you get oil, crush the oil from the olives that come down from the trees, that's a nasty smell that it has.

如果想要得到橄榄油,就要从橄榄树上摘下橄榄来榨油,它的味道可真不好闻

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So it looks as though what the Mycenaeans did-- Greece is filled with wonderful olive trees and so they obviously took the oil from those olives.

这样看来,做芳香油贸易就很稀松平常了,希腊盛产优质的橄榄树,很显然,他们从橄榄中提取油

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They knew how to cultivate the grape to make excellent wine; they knew how to cultivate olives to be able to make superb olive oil and how to process them to produce the result.

他们懂得如何培育葡萄来酿造佳酿,他们也懂得如何培育橄榄树,以及制造优良的橄榄油,同样懂得如何将这些工艺更加精细化

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