Ten years sounds far, far away.

十年听起来遥遥无期。

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"We're paleontologists studying events 250 million years ago," he adds, so "a hundred thousand years sounds like overnight to us."

“我们是研究发生在两亿五千两百万年前的事件的古生物学家”，他补充道，“十万年对我们来说仅仅是一个夜晚而已”。

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Amazing as it now sounds, Tambora was largely overlooked for some 160 years.

现在听起来似乎使人很惊讶，坦博拉火山在很大程度上被忽略了约160年。

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I like to tell that story because it sounds obvious that if you were a goldsmith hundreds of years of ago you would have probably become a banker -it would just be the natural thing to do.

我喜欢讲这个故事,因为这里面的道理很简单,如果你是几百年前的一名金匠,你很可能就会变成一个银行家,这是自然而然的事

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