你知道20世纪最长的日全食正好超过7分钟吗？
Did you know that the longest total solar eclipse of the 20th Century was just over 7 minutes?
不过并非只有大本钟如此。比萨斜塔自12世纪70年代还在建造之时到现在一直不断得到建筑师们的矫正。
But Big Ben isn't alone; architects have been correcting the Leaning Tower of Pisa since the 1170s when it was still being built.
唐纳修先生称这是BBH在20世纪90年代末经济泡沫时所提倡的“思考20分钟”。
It is a move that BBH “thought about for 20 minutes” during the froth of the late 1990s, says Mr Donahue.
在17世纪60年代，一台运行良好的摆钟一天的误差只有15秒，而同时期的非摆钟的钟表(即采用回转轮的钟表)运行一天则有15分钟的误差。
Well-run pendulum clocks in the 1660s differed by only about 15 seconds a day. Non-pendulum clocks of the same era (ones that used rotating wheels) varied by about 15 minutes a day.
17世纪，小型的组铃进入了家庭：在带音乐的钟里有一排铃，由一个乐曲编码滚筒来演奏，就象钟塔里的组铃一样。
In the 17th century scaled-down carillons are introduced into the drawing-room: the musical clock contains a row of bells which are played by a pro grammed cylinder just like the tower carillon.
陈寅恪与钱钟书同为中国20世纪罕见的学术大师和文化巨人。
Both Chen Yinque and Qian Zhongshu are rare academic masters and cultural giants in 20th century China.
安迪·沃霍尔，一个20世纪著名的艺术家，曾预言未来人们将会在15分钟内名扬四海。
Andy Warhol, a famous 20th-century artist, predicted that in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes.
当他们凌晨3点钟大睁着双眼躺在床上的时候，他们不会也做不到自我安慰，满脑子都是想着20世纪末金融市场就没这么多麻烦的念头。
They don't, and can't, console themselves, as they lie awake at 3am, with thoughts of the lesser troubles of the financial markets at the end of the 20th century.
乘坐西南方向的红线20分钟就到了思博提娜亚站，此时你就置身于另一个天地——建立于16世纪早期的新少女修道院。
Take a 20 minute ride south-west on the red line to Sportivnaya station and suddenly you are transported into another world. Here is the Novodevichy Monastery, built early in the 16th century.
每个参赛者都有五分钟时间来编造出最妙的谎言。该比赛是为了纪念19世纪布里奇酒店老板威尔·瑞特森而创立的，据说瑞特森因为善于撒谎而成为传奇人物。
Each contestant is given up to five minutes to weave the best fib in the contest, which was founded in honor of 19th-century Bridge Inn landlord Will Ritson, who was reportedly legendary for his lies.
由于10分钟左右的好天气，到了10点24分，地球上已经覆盖了石炭纪的大森林，它们的残留物变成了我们的煤。
Thanks to ten minutes or so of balmy weather, by 10:24 the Earth is covered in the great carboniferous forests whose residues give us all our coal, and the first winged insects are evident.
深夜的一分钟漫长的像一世纪尤其当我掉进想念妳的陷阱里…
Every minute in the night It felt like century long. Specially when I am trapped in this deep hole of thinking about you…
深夜的一分钟漫长的像一世纪尤其当我掉进想念妳的陷阱里…
Every minute in the night It felt like century long. Specially when I am trapped in this deep hole of thinking about you…
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