For example, the Long Now Foundation has as its flagship project a mechanical clock that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years hence.

例如，Long Now 基金会有一个作为旗舰项目的机械钟，它的设计目的是几千年后仍在计时。

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Most of the time people chew their food slowly, as my mother taught me so many years ago.

大多数时候人们慢慢地咀嚼食物，就像许多年前我妈妈教我的那样。

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Nowadays, the average weekly screen time for children is twice as much as it was five years ago.

如今，孩子们平均每周看电子屏幕的时间是五年前的两倍。

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Four years later, North Carolina State University hired her as the school's first full-time women's basketball coach and athletics coordinator.

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What I plot on this graph here is as a function time, years, dates, life expectancy as a function of time.

在这儿的这张图是,一个关于时间,年,日期的函数,将寿命长短作为时间的函数

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I served as Master of Silliman College for six years and during that time I would get up at 5 or 5:30 in the morning and start working.

我在西利曼学院当了六年院长,那时我会在早上五点或五点半起床,并开始工作

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So you may have your money invested in 'safer' places, but you may then find that lower growth rates mean that your capital isn't worth as much in a few years' time as it is today.

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Having spent many years as Time magazine's bureau chief in Tokyo and having done a stint in Detroit, Mr Reingold knows cars and Japan with an intimacy and insight few academic biographers and historians can match.

ECONOMIST: The complex lives of legal persons

And as we reflect back over the last three years, as tough a three years as this country has seen in a very long time, we understand that we've still got a lot of work to do.

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