It was once thickly populated, and under cultivation, but for some cause had been abandoned.

它曾经人口稠密，被耕种，但由于某种原因被遗弃了。

The improve situation meant that families could afford to put more land under cultivation.

情况的改善意味着家庭有能力耕种更多的土地。

And they put more land under cultivation, and put up the main building five years ago.

他们还开垦了更多的土地，五年前就盖起了主楼。

The villages along the road were far smaller now, and the level areas under cultivation

路边的村庄现在小得多了，耕地面积也变得平坦了。

The United Nations says Peru has become the world's main producer of coco leaves despite a small drop in the area under cultivation.

联合国称秘鲁成为全世界可可叶最大产地，尽管耕作地区的产量有稍微下降。

Moreover, most of the Northern slaves were domestic servants, not laborers necessary to keep mills going or fields under cultivation.

此外， 大多数北方奴隶都是家庭佣人，而不是维持磨坊运转或耕种所需的劳动者。

And, indeed, there was scarcely a touch of wildness in it—some of those slopes had been under cultivation for two thousand years.

！ 而且，事实上，它几乎没有一丝野性——其中一些斜坡已经耕种了两千年。

But from the perspective of the planet, each turn in that cycle takes something: More land under cultivation, more carbon emissions, more resource extraction.

但从地球的角度来看，这个周期的每一个转折都会带来一些影响：更多的耕地、更多的碳排放、更多的资源开采。

While populations have increased partly thanks to better yields from existing farmland, much more land has also been brought under cultivation in the past half-century.

虽然人口增加部分归功于现有农田产量的提高，但在过去的半个世纪中也有更多的土地被开垦。

Slave labor quickly exhausted the soil and of its own force compelled the cutting of the forests and the extension of the area under cultivation.

奴隶劳动很快耗尽了土壤，并凭借自身的力量迫使砍伐森林和扩大耕种面积。

Oxen, when combined with their plows, made it possible to bring more land under cultivation and also made transportation easier and more efficient, and plus European animals remade culture.

牛与犁相结合，可以开垦更多的土地， 也使运输更容易、更高效， 再加上欧洲的动物重塑了文化。

In the ten years that followed,100,000 people from the Middle West and the South, responding to his call, went to the Western country where they brought eight million acres of prairie land under cultivation.

此后十年间，中西部和南部的十万人响应他的号召，奔赴西方国家，耕种了八百万亩草原。