It's a village on one of the islands, and it is eroding away so rapidly that the entire village is now scheduled for moving inland and away from the coast, simply because the coast is eroding.
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It includes proposals for a new by-pass in Ballasalla to divert south-bound traffic away from the village centre, through to Balthane Industrial Estate.
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Why are so many people so anxious to get away from the small town or village where they were brought up, and to make for the big cities?
为什么那么多人那么急切地想离开自己从小长大的小城镇或村庄,奔向大都市呢?
The whole village soon learnt that a large sum of money salted away by Mr Sam Benton for years had been lost.
全村人很快都知道了萨姆· 本顿先生节省了几年的一大笔钱丢失了。
The whole village moved away to make room for the construction.
整个村子迁走,给这项建设让地。
The hunt for the puma began in a small village where a woman picking blackberries saw a large cat only five yards away from her.
搜寻美洲狮的工作是从一座小村庄开始的。那里的一位妇女在采摘黑莓时的看见“一只大猫”,离她仅5码远。
The hunt for the puma began in a small village where a woman picking blackberries saw 'a large cat' only five yards away from her.
搜寻美洲狮的工作是从一座小村庄开始的。那里的一位妇女在采摘黑莓时的看见“一只大猫”,离她仅5码远。
Mattathias,it is said,took the sword away from the soldier and killed this priest and the soldier for encouraging Jews in his village to sacrifice to the gods.
据说玛他提亚从士兵手中夺过剑,杀了祭司和士兵,因为他们鼓动村里的犹太人给神献祭。
Last year we were forced to move her grave farther away from the village in order to make room for a proposed rail line.
去年,一条铁路要从那儿穿过,我们不得不将她的坟墓迁移到距离村子更远的地方。
It was pretty hard for the children of the village who had to go to school in other villages which were all far away.
村里的孩子必须去离家很远的其它村庄去上学,这对于孩子们来说非常辛苦。
He had no pity for poor people. He always threw stones at them and drove them away from the village.
他对穷人没有同情心,而且常向他们丢石头,还把他们赶到村外去。
He decided right away to go back to the village for the third time.
他决定马上第三次返回到村庄。

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