When the Europeans arrived, Rapa Nui was grassland, with only a few scrawny trees.
当欧洲人到达时，拉帕努伊还是一片草原，只有几棵瘦骨嶙峋的树。
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Whichever is the case, there are surely some valuable lessons which the world at large can learn from the story of Rapa Nui.
不管怎样，拉帕努伊的故事中总有一些宝贵的经验值得全世界学习。
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They would have prevented the reseeding of the slow-growing palm trees and thereby doomed Rapa Nui's forest, even without the settlers' campaign of deforestation.