To undertake colossal projects requiring immense effort to exploit natural resources, such as mining mountains for minerals and extracting salt by boiling seawater; to develop resources on a grand scale.
我们的先辈为了生存，曾经摘山煮海，开辟出一片片家园。
Our ancestors, for survival, once mined mountains and boiled the sea, carving out vast areas for their homes.
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Ancient
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