I mean, for centuries... Okay, well maybe not centuries.
我指，几百年以来，也许没那么久。
That results in a range that spans decades, not centuries.
采用地层学断代推算出的时间范围是几十年，而不是几百年。
What one community knows, all know (at least over decades, if not centuries).
只要一个社区知晓，其他的社区也都会知道（这个过程如果不是花费数个世纪的时间，就是数十年）。
According to estimates, this area of northern Ukraine will be uninhabitable for decades, if not centuries.
据估计，乌克兰北部的这块区域在几十年甚至数百年内都不适于居住。
This was not a volunteer soldier, not someone well paid, but an average guy, up against the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies seen in centuries.
这不是一个志愿兵，也不是一个收入丰厚的人，而是一个普通人，起而反抗几个世纪以来训练最好、装备最好、最凶猛、最野蛮的敌人。
For centuries one important ingredient was missing—the first tomatoes were not brought to Europe until the sixteenth century, from South America.
几世纪以来，一种重要的佐料却找不到了——第一批西红柿直到16世纪才从南美洲传到欧洲。
Not many of our readers would choose to go for a swim in such low temperatures, but in some countries, ice swimming has been popular for centuries.
我们的读者中没有多少人会选择在如此低温下游泳，但在某些国家，冰泳已经流行了好几个世纪。
Shakespeare, Hamlet, the ancient Greeks and Romans could not imagine steam engines, railways, and the industry of the 18th and 19th centuries.
莎士比亚、哈姆雷特、以及古代的希腊人罗马人，是想象不出蒸汽机、铁路和18、19世纪的工业的。
The snows fell in polar regions and on cold mountains, where they melted only a little or not at all, and so collected to great depths over the years and centuries.
这些雪花落在极地或寒冷的山上，仅有少量融化或根本不融 化，这样经过许多年或许多世纪后积累了巨大的深度。
For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, Mrs. And Miss were deployed to signal age, not marital status.
在18和19世纪的大部分时间里，“夫人”和“小姐”只用来表明年龄，并不关乎婚姻状况。
Mr.Johnson has written about the famous and notorious around the world and across centuries, but he's not above telling of his personal encounters with history.
约翰逊笔下写过这世界上数个世纪以来无数的名人与恶人，可就是没有写过关于他个人的任何际遇。
Three tiny glazed pots, decorated with cherubs, provide new evidence that European hard-paste porcelain was invented not in Germany, as has been thought for three centuries, but in England.
小天使图案的三个小瓷罐提供了新证据，证明3个世纪来欧洲硬瓷起源于德国的定论并非如此，而是起源于英国。
It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for more than four centuries, not only by a misery, but by every possible human misery.
这种语言，在法国，举例说，便说了四百多年，说这种语言的不仅是某一个穷苦层，而是整个穷苦层，在人类中可能存在的整个穷苦层。
The report also concluded that salmonella has been around American kitchens for centuries now, and must therefore be at least harmless, if not actually good for us.
报告还推断说沙门氏菌已经遍布美国的厨房有上百年了，即使它们是对我们没有好处，那最起码也是无害的。
It was the product not of genetic engineering but of patient, old-fashioned cross-breeding, of the kind farmers have been doing for centuries.
这不是基因工程的产物，而是来自耐心的，老式的杂交育种，是那些友好的农民们做了几个世纪的事情。
But it will by no means be idle, at least not to the psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers and kissy-face dog owners who for centuries have pondered the mysteries of canine consciousness.
但这绝不是闲扯，至少对心理学家，神经学家，哲学家，和那些与狗亲亲的主人们不是，几个世纪以来他们都在深思犬类有无意识的谜团。
If we really want not to be left with this huge reservoir of mental and brain illness for the next few centuries, then we ought to be investing more now.
如果我们真不希望将来还要面对这些头疼的心理和大脑疾病的话，那么我们现在就得多做些付出。
Giving dolls attributes that are not traditionally associated with dolls, gives them an existence beyond the realm of toys to which they have been confined for centuries.
我把娃娃通常不具备的特质赋予它们，几个世纪以来娃娃都仅仅是玩具而已，我要让它们超脱出玩具的国度，获得另一种存在感。
The term vampire did not become an everyday superstition, and fear, until the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe.
直到17、18世纪的欧洲，吸血鬼才变成一个常见的迷信词汇，成为令人日夜恐惧的怪物。
Scientists believe the world's great ice sheets will not completely disappear for many more centuries, but the Greenland ice sheet is now shedding more ice than it is accumulating.
科学家们认为，这个世界大冰盖短期内都不会完全消失，然而，如今的格陵兰冰盖脱落的冰却比聚积的冰更多。
If the writing of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato had not contained so much truth about the human condition, his name would have been forgotten centuries ago.
如果古希腊哲学家柏拉图在对人类境遇的探讨中没包含那么多真知灼见的话，他的名字可能在几个世纪前就被遗忘了。
Climate scientists will then be able to correct for these effects, not just in interpreting modern measurements but also when attempting to reconstruct the climate stretching back centuries.
一旦可以达到这个目标，气候学家就能根据这些影响进行修正，不仅仅用于现代测量结果的解释，更可用于将气候重塑回数个世纪前的尝试中。
"Think centuries or millennia, not decades," said Dr. Dyson, who also said he approved of the Planetary Society project.
“想想几百年或几千年后，而不是几十年，”戴森博士说，他说他认为行星协会的项目是可行的。
After two centuries, we still do not really know.
两百年后的今天我们依然不知道答案。
After two centuries, we still do not really know.
两百年后的今天我们依然不知道答案。
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