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.
在上个世纪左右，这些变化加速了。
直到16世纪左右，茶才出现在英国。
它据说是作于公元前2世纪左右。
It is said that it was sculpted around the second century B.C..
线形文字A的历史更为悠久，约在公元前18世纪左右。
之后的八个世纪左右的时间里，又是一派祥和。
预计这种风暴每过一个世纪左右发生一次，也许我们已经逾期。
Such storms are predicted every century or so, and perhaps we're overdue.
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。
It was written in the second century sometime by a guy in Rome named Hermas, and it's called the Shepherd.
一个世纪左右之后，greenhorn是指尚未有任何战斗经验的士兵。
A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in battle.
在公元5世纪左右，称为天使、撒克逊和黄麻的人们的部落从德国和丹麦旅行向西过北海。
Around the fifth century A.D., tribes of people known as the Angels, Saxons, and Jutes traveled west from Germany and Denmark across the North Sea.
老忠实是独一无二的，它的火山爆发频繁，相对在上个世纪左右的意见是一致的。
Old Faithful is unique in that its eruptions have been frequent and relatively consistent during the last century or so of observations.
其他人则乐观地认为，巴西利亚仍有可能成为一座伟大的城市，但需要一个世纪左右的时间。
Others optimistically argue that Brasilia may still become a great city, in a century or so.
二氧化碳一旦被释放出来，就会留在大气层中，在一个世纪左右都会持续产生温室效应，但工业设施的使用寿命才有几十年。
Carbon dioxide, once released, stays in the atmosphere and continues to have a warming effect for about a century, and industrial infrastructure is built to have a useful life of several decades.
再过一个世纪左右，人类会面临一场数字化时代的灾难。除了记录在书面上的文字外，那时将只有很少一部分数字化信息会保留下来。
A century or so after a major catastrophe, little of the digital age will remain beyond what's written on paper.
这些发现与他之前对喜马拉雅山脉达索普（Dasuopu）冰川的研究结果相一致，“尤其是最近一个世纪左右时间内的尘土增加情况”。
The findings mirrored patterns he had documented within ice in a Himalayan glacier called Dasuopu, "particularly the increase in the past century or so of dust," he says.
等游牧民族定居下来开垦土地后，他们养起了牛和猪，几千年以后开始养鸡。因为火鸡驯养时间太长，所以十四世纪左右就把这件事情（养殖火鸡）交给阿兹特克人了。
Cattle and pigs came next as nomads settled down on farms, and modern chickens followed a few thousand years later; turkeys took much longer to tame, finally giving in to the Aztecs around the 1300s.
你可能认出来了，它和能够代表伦敦形象的一种游戏的名字十分相近（译注：应该指paille-maille，16、17世纪左右流行于英国的球类游戏，在草坪上进行），名字直接翻译过来就是槌球。
You may recognize the name of a landmark of London England in the name of this game which translates simply as ball-mallet.
周一下午6点40分左右，大火从93米高的塔尖底部开始，蔓延到教堂的屋顶。教堂的屋顶由数百根橡木梁组成，其中一些梁的历史可以追溯到13世纪。
The fire, which had started at the base of the 93-metre spire at about 6: 40 pm on Monday, spread through the cathedral's roof, made up of hundreds of oak beams, some dating back to the 13th century.
水是机械动力的主要来源，而到了17世纪末，人们认为仅英格兰就有2万个左右的工作磨坊。
Water was the main source of mechanical power, and by the end of the seventeenth century, England alone is thought to have had some 20,000 working mills.
再往远看，到下个世纪末，世界人口预期达到一百亿左右。
Looking still further ahead, by the end of the next century world population is expected to be about ten billion.
例如，睡眠时间从20世纪50年代的8小时左右下降到近年来的7小时。
For example, sleep duration has declined from some 8 hours in the 1950s to 7 in recent years.
1660年左右英国才出现茶叶，而中国与西方国家的茶叶贸易发生在19世纪。
In England, tea didn't appear until around 1660. The tea trade from China to Western countries took place in the 19th century.
中国的亚洲象数量从20世纪70年代的170头已经增加到现在的300头左右。
The number of Asian elephants in China has increased from 170 in the 1970s to about 300 nowadays.
威尼斯的航运业从1530年左右荷兰和英国船只大量进入地中海之前开始衰落，到16世纪末已经明显落后了。
Venetian shipping had started to decline from about 1530—before the entry into the Mediterranean of large volumes of Dutch and British shipping—and was clearly outclassed by the end of the century.
发生在公元250年左右，所以是在三世纪中期。
It happens around the time the year 250, so right in the middle of the third century.
在北美这种动物现存一万只左右，他们全部都是由半个世纪以前的一个的物种进化而成，当时这个物种的数量只有三十只。
There are about 10,000 of these animals in North America. All of them are descended from an original population of just 30 that was introduced half a century ago.
在北美这种动物现存一万只左右，他们全部都是由半个世纪以前的一个的物种进化而成，当时这个物种的数量只有三十只。
There are about 10, 000 of these animals in North America. All of them are descended from an original population of just 30 that was introduced half a century ago.
他说，20世纪80年代他的公司员工每月薪酬700至800卢比左右，今天他们的薪酬是20000至30000卢比。
In the 1980s his company's workers cost about 700-800 rupees a month, he said. Today they cost 20, 000-30, 000.
他说，20世纪80年代他的公司员工每月薪酬700至800卢比左右，今天他们的薪酬是20000至30000卢比。
In the 1980s his company's workers cost about 700-800 rupees a month, he said. Today they cost 20, 000-30, 000.
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