- He deserves to be punished with the full rigor of the law.
他应该受到法律最严厉的惩罚。 - He has a bland personality.
他有一个温和的性格 - He proved himself a valiant soldier.
他证明自己是一个英勇的战士。 - War was followed by many years of austerity.
战争之后要过很多年艰苦的日子。 - I will return to Changsha from Nanjing next month.（return to ... from ...）
我下个月从南京回长沙 - The corn that Columbus introduced to Europe was the distant descendant of a grass native to Mexico.
哥伦布引进到欧洲的玉米，是一种产自于墨西哥的一种草的旁系子孙 - the peoples of the Americas probably started to domesticate this grass as early as 5000BC.（as early as ...）
美洲人可能早在公元前5000年就开始培育这种草了。 - after about 1000 years, they have developed开发 highly productive strand of corn, which later became the basis for great pre-Columbian civilizations
大约1000年之后，他们开发了一种高产量的串式玉米，这种玉米之后成为了哥伦布发现美洲之前的人民的生活基础。 - figuratively speaking, both the cities of the Incas印加人 and temples寺庙 of the Mayas were built on corn. (figuratively speaking: 比如说)
比如说，印加人的城市和玛雅人的寺庙都是建立在玉米上的。 - domesticated corn and the people who cultivated it, developed together, without humans to care for it, domesticated corn could not survive.
家养的玉米和种植它的人应该一起发展，因为没有人来照顾它，它无法存活 - the kernels are crowded together beneath the strong protected husk and silk, and the young corn shoot发芽 is not strong enough to break through the husk on its own.
核在强大的壳和须的保护下聚在一起，幼小的玉米发芽不足以强大到靠自己的力量冲破外壳 - if people did not strip away the husk and plant individual kernels, the corn will die out.（strip away：剥开）
如果人们不剥开外壳，并且不单独种植玉米，那么玉米就会死掉 - Apart from anything else I was starving.
- He hadn't eaten a thing except for a hamburger.
- I will play basketball with anybody except you.
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