So how long can a gene survive in a species if it is no longer used?
那么，如果一个基因不再被使用，它能在一个物种中存活多久呢？
It is known that pollution is a long-term problem, and no single government can meet the challenge alone.
众所周知，污染是一个长期问题，没有任何一个政府能够单独应对这个挑战。
Although origin in ritual has long been the most popular, it is by no means the only theory about how the theater came into being.
尽管戏剧起源于宗教仪式的说法目前是最被大众认可的，但这并非戏剧起源的唯一定论。
As much as we might wish it, there is no painless recovery after such a long bout of overleveraging.
正如我们可能希望的那样，在经历如此漫长的一轮高杠杆化之后，不会有无痛的复苏。
However you look at it, there is no escaping the fact that increasing well-being across society requires joined-up, long-term policy efforts.
无论你怎么看，都无法回避这样一个事实，就是全社会福利的不断增长需要我们在政策上做出协调长期的努力。
Forgive yourself if you skip a couple and love yourself no matter how long or short the list is and how much you accomplish on it.
原谅你自己遗漏了某些事情，不论这份清单是长是短，也不论你花了多久才做完这些待办事项，你都有爱你自己。
But though this way of organising our affairs has had a long time to demonstrate that it is capable of satisfying human demands all round, it seems no closer todoing so than ever.
不过，虽然这种组织我们事务的方式已经有很长的时间来证明它能够全面满足人的需求，它似乎比以往任何时候都胜任如此。
This stone is entirely blank. The only thought in cutting it was of the essentials of the grave, and there was no other care than to make this stone long enough and narrow enough to cover a man.
这块石板光秃秃的，凿石的人只想到这是筑墓石所需，除了使它够长够宽能盖住一个人之外，就没有考虑其他方面。
As it is clearly no inheritance for you then, I have thought it best to use for your advantage, almost the only fragment of the old connexion that stands by me, through long habit.
很明显，那时候我将没有什么遗产留给你，因此我想，为了你的利益，最好利用我通过长期的习惯所保留下来的几乎唯一还存在的一丁点儿老关系。
Have no idea of what it is, who he is, how tolove or how long it will be.
不知道是什么，不知道是谁，不知道如何去爱，也不知道可以爱多久。
There is no limit to what I sing, so long as it can let out my emotion and pass the pleasant voice to others.
我唱什么歌并无限制，只要它能发泄我的情绪，稚快乐的声音传给周遭的人就好了。
She said: "The declining figures are no doubt partly due to the perception that wives do really rather too well in divorce, and that it is a long and stressful procedure.
她说：“那逐渐下降的结婚数据部分无疑是来自男人的认知，他们觉得妻子在离婚中会有绝对优势，那是套冗长而又繁重的程序。
Where love is, no disguise can hide it for long; where it is not, none can simulate it.
爱存在之处，没有任何伪装能够长期隐藏它；爱不在之处，也没有任何假装可以长期冒充它。
A gift for languages is really no different from perfect pitch or long legs, and it usually comes at the expense of something else.
语言的天赋和完美的音质或者修长的腿没什么两样，都是天生的，而且通常会以某些其它方面的低能作为代价。
The virtual organisation is inevitably ephemeral because it has no repository of long-term memory, no individuals who have worked for the same organisation for years and years.
虚拟组织注定是短暂的，因为它没有长时记忆的存储器、没有为同一组织工作多年的个体。
Performance is usually judged relative to rivals or to an industry benchmark, encouraging banks to mimic each other’s risk-taking, even if in the long run it benefits no one.
对于公司表现的判断往往是基于竞争对手的表现或者行业标准，这种判断鼓励银行去模仿彼此的冒险行为，即使从长远来看，这对任何公司都没有好处。
However, I have no objection to living on campus as long as it is quiet enough for me to study.
然而，我不反对住在校园里，只要环境安静，不影响我的学业即可。
However, I have no objectionto living on campus as long as it is quiet enough for me to study.
然而，我不反对住在校园里，只要环境安静，不影响我的学业即可。
That's no problem for somebody signing up for a long-term subscription, but it sure is for anyone looking to make an impulse purchase.
对于已经长期订阅的老用户来说这不成问题，但如果想要制造“购买冲动”，那就有点问题了。
No one really believes the pace of the past two quarters will last for long: it implies annual growth of 3%, which is more than the euro zone can sustain.
没有人真正相信过去两个季度的增长步伐将持续长久：这意味着3%的年度增长超出欧元区所能维持的幅度。
Consider what it will feel like to live in an economy in which real GDP is experiencing little or no long-term growth.
想想看，生活在一个实际GDP不断下降或长期停滞的经济环境中，会是种什么样的感受。
I have no idea what time it is, or how long I have to wait.
我不知道现在是几点，我还要等多长时间。
Bolt says it is no surprise because the event has been his favorite for a long time.
博尔特说，这并不令人吃惊，因为这个项目一直都是他的强项。
First, it is a nuisance to have to remember every server URL of interest, and second, it is an even larger nuisance to have to key in a long URL on a mobile device, no matter how good the keyboard is.
一是记住所感兴趣的每个服务器的URL是件很繁琐 的事情，其二，不管移动设备的键盘有多棒，要求在移动设备上键入这么长的 URL 就更繁琐了。
I'm just saying that I'm in no position to make that determination — and, so long as the image is legal, I'm in no position to keep you from looking at a Web site about it.
我只是说我没有权利来做这个决定，只要这图片是合法，我没有权利阻止你看一个关于它的网页。
But the carriers, unlike the cafeteria owners, can provide unlimited quantities of "food" at virtually no cost to themselves - so long as it is served in bite-sized portions.
但运营商，不像餐厅业主，却可以无限量零成本地提供虚拟“食物”-只要短信只占那么一小口的话。
But the carriers, unlike the cafeteria owners, can provide unlimited quantities of "food" at virtually no cost to themselves - so long as it is served in bite-sized portions.
但运营商，不像餐厅业主，却可以无限量零成本地提供虚拟“食物”-只要短信只占那么一小口的话。
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