到二十世纪初，关于进化速度的问题已经得到了答案，答案支持渐进主义，大多数生物学家对此感到满意。

By the early twentieth century, the question about the rate of evolution had been answered in favor of gradualism to most biologists' satisfaction.

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在19世纪50年代末，技术变革的速度加快了。

In the late 1850s the speed of technological change quickened.

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蕨类植物已经从它的林地据点向外蔓延了几个世纪，但是最近在整个英国北部和西部，蕨类植物侵入开阔乡村的速度却惊人地增长。

Bracken fern has been spreading from its woodland strongholds for centuries, but the rate of encroachment into open countryside has lately increased alarmingly throughout northern and western Britain.

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Insurance was invented in the 1600s but it did not proliferate fast, it proliferated only very slowly.

保险学产生于17世纪,但是它的发展速度并不快,我们甚至可以说它发展得很慢

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India's economy was growing at close to 3 to 4% 4% from about 1950s to 1980s.

从20世纪50年代到80年代,印度经济的增长速度%,大概是3%到。

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Tests show in the nineteenth century that people could type four or five times as fast as they could handwrite and there's no ambiguity because it's very clear what key was struck; whereas, handwritten--fast handwriting becomes impossible to read--or difficult.

通过测试显示，在19世纪,人们打字的速度是手写的4至5倍,而且也不存在字迹模糊的问题,因为键盘敲击出来的非常清晰;,而手写，尤其是快速手写根本无法阅读,或者说是很难阅读。

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