Native American tribes once grew vegetables like beans and corn throughout the Chesapeake coastal plain.

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It is the coastal plain, and that provides, or that is the main highway out of Egypt or down to Egypt.

这就是海岸平原，它提供了或说它本身就是,离开埃及或者下埃及的主要通道。

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That area was controlled by Egypt at the purported time of the Exodus Running north to south, next to that coastal plain, is a region of low mountains.

在出埃及记时期，这个地区被埃及所控制,南北分布，靠近海岸平原，是低矮的山区。

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If you look at your map you will see first on the west side, you've got a low coastal plain. It is about 20 or 30 miles wide.

如果看地图的话，你会首先在西端看到，你会看到地势低的海岸平原，大约20到30公里宽。

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So the first half of the book of Joshua contains a streamlined, idealized account according to which the Israelites managed in a relatively short period to take the central hill country, confining the Philistines to a little strip here on the coastal plain. We will come to the Philistines in a minute.

因此《约书亚书》第一部分包含了,一种流线行，理想化的叙述，据此,以色列人在相对较短的时期内设法,攫取中央山地，将腓利士人，逼至狭窄条形地带,逼至海岸平原，我们待会儿将要说到腓利士人。

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