If represented graphically, the curve for all these changes looks rather like that well-known hockey stick: with little change over millennia and a dramatic upswing over the past decades.
如果用图表进行展示的话,这些变化呈现出来的曲线很像大家熟悉的曲棍球杆:以往数千年都没什么变化,而在过去的几十年内却突飞猛涨。
Arching 275 feet and across 290 feet, Rainbow Bridge in the Utah desert has been a source of inspiration and wonderment for millennia.
拱高275英尺,跨度290英尺,犹他州沙漠里的彩虹桥一直是几千年来的灵感和奇迹的来源。
The last major event began around a hundred thousand years ago, with a gradual cooling that lasted for tens of millennia.
最后一次重大事件发生大约发生在十万年前,并且伴随着数千年的温度下降。
Arching 275 feet (84 meters) across and 290 feet (88 meters) above the creek bed below, Rainbow Bridge in the Utah desert has been a source of inspiration and wonderment for millennia.
拱高275英尺(84米),跨度290英尺(88米)下面是小溪的河床,犹他州沙漠里的彩虹桥一直是几千年来的灵感和奇迹的来源。
We have been watching grisly death on screen for over a century, and for millennia on stage.
我们在银幕上观看可怕的死亡已经超过一个世纪了,在舞台上也超过了一千年。
For millennia, beauty was a woman's only currency and, even then, the most gorgeous women were property themselves, unable to inherit land or marry of their own accord.
数千年来,美貌并非是女性唯一的潮流,即使那时最美丽的女性也只是财产,她们不能继承土地或嫁给心上人。
Diasporas have been a part of the world for millennia.
几千年以来移居群体一直是世界的一部分。
His influence as a teacher shaped Chinese education for several millennia and has impacted education and philosophy throughout the world.
作为先师,孔子不仅对中国的教育有数千年之久的影响,也对世界范围内的教育、哲学产生了一定影响。
For millennia, the Atlantic ocean had been a barrier cutting Europe off from the rest of the world, but Europe's new ships effectively shrank the ocean, turning it into a commercial highway.
千百年来,大西洋阻隔着欧洲与世界其他各国,但这些新型船舰,驰骋在大洋上,将其变成了一条便利的金融高速。
The hope is that the gas will stay deep underground for millennia rather than entering the atmosphere as a heat-trapping pollutant.
我们宁愿二氧化碳在地下沉睡一千年,也不愿把它释放到大气中来使大气变暖。
The Neanderthal, a cousin of the modern human who disappeared about 30 millennia ago for still unknown reasons, was far more massive and had a larger brain.
穴居人,这个约在三万年前不知何因消失的现代人近亲,要远比现代人巨大,他们有着更大的大脑。
It takes tens of thousands of years for the crust to generate enough eruptible magma, but once formed, these unstable magma bodies only last for centuries to a few millennia.
地壳聚集足够喷发的岩浆需要数万年的时间,但是一旦准备完毕,这些不稳定的岩浆体就只会在地壳内存在几百年到几千年的时间。
Indentured to the Hutts for millennia, the Klatooinians are nonetheless a proud people with a strong sense of tradition.
克拉图因人被赫特人束缚了数千年,但他们仍然十分自豪,有着强烈的传统意识。
It was a very old way of life that had nurtured human beings for millennia, a life dependent on sparse populations and large tracts of common land.
那是一种非常古老的生活方式,人类千百年来就是靠着这种方式来休养生息,一种靠着人烟稀少的公共土地来维系的生活。
And now archaeologists have turned up some of those ancient medicines, which were preserved in a shipwreck for close to two millennia.
现在考古学家找到了一些古时候的药物,它们被保存在遇难船只里近两千年了。
Their war has been going on for millennia - not even the wisest Talesinger among the werewolves can recall a story of their race at peace.
他们的战斗举行了数千年了——甚至最睿智的说唱者也说不出一个还太平的时候的故事。
This is a must-have resource for anyone who wants to know more about the stories that have shaped societies for millennia.
对于任何人,他想要了解数千年来塑造社会之神话故事,这是一本必备的资源。
When you bite into a loaf of bread, you're devouring a little, crumbly slice of history, with roots that stretch back for millennia.
每当你咬一口面包,其实也是吞下了千年面包史中的一小点酥脆块。
It is a discovery that is as impossible for us to understand as our survival problem was millennia ago.
这也是一项对于我们来说无法理解的发现,如同我们千百万年以来的生存问题一样。
For instance, he founded logic as a formal science and created foundations to biology that were not superseded for two millennia.
例如,他把逻辑学创建成一门形式科学、为生物学奠定两千年都没有超越的基础。
Salmon farms in Norway and Scotland, two of the world's largest exporters, have been decimated by sea lice, a parasite that has feasted on the blood and skin of salmon for millennia.
挪威和苏格兰的鲑鱼养殖场,全球最大的两个鲑鱼出口国,已被海虱侵袭,海虱是千百年来靠鲑鱼血液和皮肤生活的寄生虫。
The method has been used nefariously for millennia so what is wrong with FRV in a positive context?
这种方法已经被恶毒地使用了千年,那FRV在积极的背景下怎么了? !
A single failure in some systems can cost more than the entire testing budget for the next millennia.
在一些系统中的单个故障可以花费多于整个测试预算下一个千年。
A noble giant of molten bronze, Sargeras carried out his duties for countless millennia, seeking out and destroying these demons wherever he could find them.
由熔化的青铜铸造的高贵战士萨格拉斯在上百万年的时间里一丝不苟地履行着他的职责,搜寻并摧毁一切他能找到的恶魔。
A noble giant of molten bronze, Sargeras carried out his duties for countless millennia, seeking out and destroying these demons wherever he could find them.
由熔化的青铜铸造的高贵战士萨格拉斯在上百万年的时间里一丝不苟地履行着他的职责,搜寻并摧毁一切他能找到的恶魔。
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