当下本是属于我们的年代，对吧？
These years are supposed to be the time of our lives, right?
天使在他的年代也已和在我们的年代一样不再被期望和尊敬。
Angels were no more expected or regarded in his day than in ours.
发问者：以我们的年代来计算，一个主要周期的长度是多少年？
Questioner: What is the length, in our years, of one of these cycles?
另外我们还要避免第二种，同样强大的诱惑，那就是拒亚里士多德于门外，因为他的观点不见容于我们的年代。
Yet, we should also avoid the second, equally powerful temptation, which is to reject Aristotle out of hand, because his views do not correspond with our own.
我认为我们可以非常准确的推断出西方文明衰落的年代。
I think we can date the decline of Western Civilization quite precisely.
让我们来假设我们的科学分析已经得出了某项文物产生的年代范围。
Let' s say our scientific analysis has produced an age range when a cultural relic was produced.
这是一个我们吹嘘情商并宣称能够体会到彼此痛苦的年代。
This is an age when we boast of our emotional intelligence and we claim to feel each other's pain.
我们必须避免类似20世纪80年代那样破坏性的繁荣-萧条周期。
We must avoid the damaging boom-bust cycles which characterized the 1980s.
早在20世纪50年代，妈妈们几乎每晚做饭，我们大多数人都生活在这样的家庭中。
Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Mom cooked virtually every night.
史密森学会档案馆馆长埃菲·卡普萨利斯说：“我们在20世纪70年代中期的时候发现它不见了。”
"We realized in the mid-1970s that it was missing," says Effie Kapsalis, head of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
作为地质学家，我们研究地球表面的沉积层以估算过去地质时期的年代。
As geologists, we examine layers of sediment on the Earth' s surface to approximate the dates of past geologic time periods.
我们说过，以今天的标准来看，20年代和30年代的许多电影会被认为是混合起来的。
We said that by today's standards, many of the films of the 20s and 30s would be considered hybrids.
然而在某种程度上，Painlevé的电影符合20年代和30年代的标准，也就是说，它们不太符合我们现在用来给电影分类的类别。
Now in a way, Painlevé's films conform to norms of the 20s and 30s, that is, they don't fit very neatly into the categories we use to classify films today.
卡普萨利斯说：“20世纪70年代以来，档案管理流程已经发生了翻天覆地的变化，我们会把价值很高的文档存放在一个保险箱中，甚至连我都无法打开。”
"Archiving practices have changed greatly since the 1970s," says Kapsalis, "and we keep our high value documents in a safe that I don't even have access to."
从20世纪80年代开始于意大利的慢食运动中，我们可以看出小型草根运动的力量，这些运动的影响可以超越其发源地。
The power of small, grassroots movements to make changes that spread beyond their place of origin can be seen with the Slow Food movement, which began in Italy in the 1980s.
它非常壮观，因为在十九世纪九十年代，我们达到了西方古典管弦乐队的顶峰，这是一个巨大，美丽，有力的乐器。
It's quite spectacular because here in the 1890s we have reached the apex of the Western classical orchestra, this big, beautiful, powerful instrument.
20世纪50年代，人工智能的先驱们预测，到本世纪末，计算机将在工作中与我们对话，机器人将完成我们的家务劳动。
In the 1950s, the pioneers of artificial intelligence predicted that, by the end of this century, computers would be conversing with us at work and robots would be performing our housework.
中国微生物学家余勇向我们展示了这座宽敞的建筑，空荡荡的桌子，上面有带着插图的时间轴，详细介绍了自20世纪80年代以来中国南极行动的快速增长。
Yong Yu, a Chinese microbiologist, showed off the spacious building, with empty desks under an illustrated timeline detailing the rapid growth of China's Antarctic operations since the 1980s.
中国微生物学家余勇向我们展示了这座宽敞的建筑，里面的课桌空空如也。他在一张配有插图的时间轴上详细描述了中国南极探险活动自上世纪80年代以来的快速增长。
Yong Yu, a Chinese microbiologist, showed off the spacious building, with empty desks under an illustrated timeline detailing the rapid growth of Chinas Antarctic operations since the 1980s.
这种方法向我们展示了自20世纪90年代初以来家庭能源使用情况的演变数据。
This method provided a readout for how home energy use has evolved since the early 1990s.
今天我想谈谈一种使我们能够确定一块土地或其他一些地质特征的年代的方法——年代测定技术。
Today I want to talk about a way in which we are able to determine how old a piece of land, or some other geologic feature is—dating techniques.
我们一直在讨论20世纪二三十年代的电影，以及当时还未形成的、而如今已被我们熟知的电影类别。
We've been discussing films in the 1920s and 30s, and how back then film categories, as we know them today, had not yet been established.
正如我们在上世纪70年代的石油危机后开始更加重视石油一样，如今我们必须开始从一个全新的经济视角看待水资源。
Just as we began to appreciate petroleum more after the 1970s oil crises, today we must start looking at water from a fresh economic perspective.
就像20世纪90年代互联网发展的早期一样，鲜少有人能预见互联网将如何改变我们的生活和世界。
Just as in the early days of the Internet in the 1990s, few could see how it could change our life and the world.
到了19世纪90年代，自发的微笑相对容易捕捉，所以我们必须从别处寻找解释，为什么维多利亚时代的人仍然对微笑犹豫不决。
Spontaneous smiles were relatively easy to capture by the 1890s, so we must look elsewhere for an explanation of why Victorians still hesitated to smile.
但实际上，我们今天所知道的乐器是在20世纪20年代人们出于实用目的造出来、之后持续发展演变而成的。
But really the instrument we know today was the result of a continuing development that started for our practical purposes in the 1920s.
在这种背景下，今天我们要谈论的是一位电影制作人，他在20世纪20年代末开创了独具一格的电影。
In that context, today we are going to talk about a film-maker who began making very unique films in the late 1920s.
我们曾经经过函数式编程的年代吗？
他说，“我们离超越种族的年代还很远。”
认为在我们这样的年代，作家可以回避这种题材，在我看来是无稽之谈。
It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects.
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