If represented graphically, the curve for all these changes looks rather like that well-known hockey stick: with little change over millennia and a dramatic upswing over the past decades.

如果用图表进行展示的话，这些变化呈现出来的曲线很像大家熟悉的曲棍球杆：以往数千年都没什么变化，而在过去的几十年内却突飞猛涨。

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Over thousands of millennia a mantle of sediment built up over its bones.

数百万年地幔沉积物堆积在（鲸）的遗骨上。

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More than two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher and scientist Archimedes said, "Give me a lever and I will move the world.

两千多年前，一位希腊的哲学家和科学家阿基米德说到,"给我一跟杠杆，我能撬动整个地球。"

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I, too, was in town on a pilgrimage, visiting a site that predates Abraham and Job and monotheism by some eight millennia: a vast complex of Stonehenge-style megalithic circles in the Urfa countryside.

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