The sheep, horses, goats and pigs brought by Europeans, however, have hard hooves, which compress the thin soil and cause erosion.

然而，欧洲人带来的绵羊、马、山羊和猪却有着坚硬的蹄子，这压紧了稀薄的土壤并导致了水土流失。

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Here, the horse was already becoming the animal of prestige in many regions, though sheep, goats, and cattle could also play a vital role.

此时，尽管绵羊、山羊和牛也会发挥非常重要的作用，马已经成为许多地区人们眼中珍贵的动物。

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It is much harder to sort the sheep from the goats, and try to identify what is worthwhile in the art of our time.

在山羊中分辨出绵羊，试图鉴别我们时代的艺术中什么是值得花时间欣赏的则困难得多了。

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The pasture is then kept empty until the grass grows to more than Experts say sheep and goats may require special preparations.

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They are engaged in raising livestock, which in Greece is more likely to be sheep and goats than cattle, but also breeding horses, which is very important for the aristocracy for carrying on warfare.

他们擅长豢养牲畜,在当地似乎养绵羊和山羊比牛要来的容易,但是他们同样养马,这对于贵族阶层发动战争很重要

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I have left out meat and fish, of course, neither of them very common in this part of the world, but meat was common enough, because there were sheep and there were goats, even when beef would have been very hard to get.

当然我没提到肉和鱼,它们在希腊都不是很常见,但相对来说肉类已经相当常见了,因为即使在牛肉都很难搞到的时候,这里还有着绵羊和山羊

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And they sort the scientific sheep from the goats, by deciding what gets published, and where.

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In recent years they have killed many millions of the double-humped Bactrian camels, yaks, sheep, cashmere goats and cows on which the nation's herders depend.

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The virus is one of the most contagious in cattle, sheep, goats and pigs.

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