一旦土壤被侵蚀，新的土壤只有经过几个世纪或几千年才能形成。

Once the soil has been removed by erosion, only the passage of centuries or millennia will enable new soil to form.

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海岸线年复一年地被侵蚀着。

The coastline is being eaten away year by year.

《牛津词典》

我们永远都不能阻止海滩被侵蚀，我们只能暂缓其发生。

We'll never be able to stop beach erosion, we can only stave it off.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

It's a process of undoing and undermining that really eats away at the argument, we could argue, throughout the entirety of Areopagitica.

这是个论点开始慢慢被侵蚀破坏的过程,我们可以争论这点，贯穿整个《论出版自由》中。

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Soil was being eroded and wasted along the Eastern seaboard, and they were using up the great soils of the Mississippi Valley and over time that slave system just somehow wasn't going to work out.

东部沿海地区的土地因被侵蚀而荒废掉,密西西比河谷地区的土地资源即将被耗尽,但就在这种情况下,奴隶制依然能维持南方的经济

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