文艺复兴是一个文化上取得空前成就的时代。
The Renaissance was an epoch of unparalleled cultural achievement.
那就把人们的注意力从地球气候的自然变化上转移开了，比如冰河时代，对吧？
That takes the focus away from the natural variations in the earth climate, like the Ice Age, right?
它可能是一个家庭和朋友的小聚会：看电视上纽约时代广场的球落下，或大声奔跑穿过社区。
It may be a small gathering of family and friends, watching New York's Times Square ball drop on TV, or loudly running through the neighbourhood.
今天，即使是能面对面表达祝福的时候，人们通常也会在礼物上附上卡片。在最近的时代，电子贺卡也变得流行。
Today cards are often given with a present, even when people can express their wishes face to face. In recent times e-cards have also become popular.
在互联网时代，至少在理论上，这个比例可以大大降低。
In the internet age, at least in theory, this fraction can be much reduced.
但在冰河时代，这些植物群落实际上一起生长，彼此混杂在一起。
But during the Ice Age, these plant communities actually grew together, mixed with one another.
当冰河时代开始时，大陆上的冰原逐渐增大，从海洋中蒸发出来的水逐渐减少，而这些水最终又会回到陆地上。
When an ice age begins, the continental ice sheets grow, steadily reducing the amount of water evaporated from the ocean that will eventually return to it.
马可尼也许不是那个时代最伟大的发明家，但他从根本上改变了我们的沟通方式，在这一点上他比任何人都伟大。
Marconi may not have been the greatest inventor of his time, but more than anyone else, he brought about a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.
休斯实际上忽略了爱迪生在电灯和电力领域的同时代著名的、臭名昭著的对手乔治·威斯汀豪斯。
Hughes virtually ignores Edison's famous contemporary and notorious adversary in the field of electric light and power, George Westinghouse.
心智功能衰退通常被视为老年问题，但一项新的研究表明，大脑功能的某些方面实际上在青年时代就开始衰退了。
Declining mental function is often seen as a problem of old age, but certain aspects of brain function actually begin their decline in young adulthood, a new study suggests.
在爱因斯坦的时代，全世界只有几千名物理学家，那些在智力上能与爱因斯坦匹敌的理论家，可能一辆有轨电车就都坐下了。
In Einstein's day, there were only a few thousand physicists worldwide, and the theoreticians who could intellectually rival Einstein probably would fit into a streetcar with seats to spare.
这种克制很大程度上解释了她在一生中缺乏普遍意义上的成功的原因，尽管她的才华并没有完全被18世纪的同时代法国人所忽视。
This restraint largely explains her lack of popular success during her lifetime, even if her talent did not go completely unrecognized by her eighteenth-century French contemporaries.
1916年，香农出生于密歇根州的佩托斯基，他很早就显现出在数学和制造小玩意方面的天赋，学生时代时就在计算机技术的基础上取得了突破。
Born in 1916 in Petoskey, Michigan, Shannon showed an early talent for maths and for building gadgets, and made breakthroughs in the foundations of computer technology when still a student.
诺曼·洛克威尔是20世纪的艺术家，他从未画过《在屏幕上滑动手指的男孩》这幅画，而我们对完美童年时代的幻想也从未被调整来适应这种如今常见的场景。
Norman Rockwell, a 20th-century artist, never painted Boy Swiping Finger on Screen, and our own vision of a perfect childhood has never been adjusted to accommodate that now-common scene.
维多利亚时代的圣人托马斯·卡莱尔写道：“通史，即人类在这个世界上取得的成就的历史，本质上就是在此努力过的伟人的历史。”
"Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here," wrote the Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle.
“再就业技术培训”听起来是个流行语，但如果我们希望未来的员工不被时代抛弃的话，这实际上是一个必要条件。
"Reskilling" is something that sounds like a buzzword but is actually a requirement if we plan to have a future where a lot of would-be workers do not get left behind.
维多利亚时代流传着一则箴言：“造物主赋予人类嘴唇以遮掩牙齿”。这暗示了在严格意义上的牙科学诞生之前，口腔的卫生状况往往非常糟糕。
"Nature gave us lips to conceal our teeth," ran one popular Victorian maxim, alluding to the fact that before the birth of proper dentistry, mouths were often in a shocking state of hygiene.
事实上，道格拉斯被他那个时代的民主资本主义理想所吸引，因为这些理想可以用来攻击奴隶制和白人至上主义。
The fact is that Douglass was attracted to these democratic-capitalist ideals of his time because they could be used to attack slavery and the doctrine of White supremacy.
今天我站在有两千年历史的罗马时代的遗址上。
Today I'm standing at a two-thousand-year-old Roman-era site.
在大型主机的时代，计算基本上是垂直整合组件包，主要由ibm提供。
In the era of the mainframe computing came in a vertically integrated package, mainly from IBM.
然而《时代周刊》上的这篇文章提出了相反意见。
我刚刚在时代周刊上读到这个。
但在这个世界上的许多地方，与石器时代相比，炉具并没有多大改进。
Yet in many parts of the world the stove has barely progressed beyond the Stone Age.
在技术上，它们可以说是那个时代最先进的发明之一。
Technologically, they were among the most advanced inventions of their age.
在我们的数据时代中，数据必须持续地转移到新的媒介上。
As our data ages, it needs to be continually transferred to fresh media.
事实上，在如今的网络时代，连卖出一本这样的书都十分困难。
Indeed, in the Internet age, it is quite hard to sell them at all.
财政上的现实迟早将迫使改变，但要在石油时代可能结束之前。
Sooner or later fiscal reality will force change. But by then the oil age may be over.
财政上的现实迟早将迫使改变，但要在石油时代可能结束之前。
Sooner or later fiscal reality will force change. But by then the oil age may be over.
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