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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While solar activity is currently increasing in its standard 11-year cycle, this same cycle has occurred over millennia.

虽然，太阳活动目前在其标准的11年周期中逐渐增加，这种固定的周期持续了几千年。

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By Darwinist thinking, giraffes got their long necks over millennia because genes for long necks had, very slowly, gained advantage.

据达尔文理论，长颈鹿几千年来的长脖子，是由于长脖子基因在漫长的演变过程中，逐渐占据上风。

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Long before Milton had begun to tackle the problem, Christians had for centuries, for millennia, puzzled over the logical inconsistency between these two concepts.

早在弥尔顿应对这个问题之前，基督教徒们就已经花了成百上千年，为这两个概念之间逻辑上的前后矛盾感到困惑。

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Grains in particular have been intensively engineered over millennia for higher yields, pest- and disease-resistance and various desirable characteristics.

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It never has been, in any culture or civilization over millennia of time.

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Further, because human psychology over millennia never changes, the really large fund redemptions will come at the worst of times.

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