上个世纪左右的艺术潮流无疑对这一观念提出了挑战。

Trends in art in the last century or so certainly challenge that idea.

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在上个世纪左右，这些变化加速了。

In the last century or so, these changes have accelerated.

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直到16世纪左右，茶才出现在英国。

Tea didn't appear in England until around the 16th century.

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It was written in the second century sometime by a guy in Rome named Hermas,and it's called The Shepherd.

它成书于主后第二世纪左右,作者为一个叫黑马的罗马人，它被称为牧人书。

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Because it was in the 1950's or so, maybe the late 1940's, that people started to discover lithium, even though it had no natural function, it did do something in our bodies.

因为在二十世纪五十年代左右，可能是四十年代末期，人们开始发现锂，尽管不参与人体的正常生理活动，但是它确实会对我们的身体产生影响。

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And again, I think these days they tend to down date it by another century or so, so it might be around 1900 B.C.

其实在今天,我认为他们又能把时间再推进,一个世纪左右,即精确到公元前一千九百年左右

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