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。
Over millennia ice and water have rounded the stones.
在数千年之间冰和水把石头侵蚀成圆形。
Beijing sits in a dry plain where groundwater has accumulated over millennia.
北京坐落于干燥的平原地区，地下水经过了数千年的累积。
Humans and dogs share a special relationship, moulded over millennia of reciprocal love and companionship.
数千年来，人类和狗狗都有十分特殊的关系，相互喜爱，相互陪伴。
You needed to move on, and throw off the mindset created over millennia of time that stifled original thinking.
你们需要继续前进，扔掉形成了一千多年的抑制原初想法的心态。
While solar activity is currently increasing in its standard 11-year cycle, this same cycle has occurred over millennia.
虽然，太阳活动目前在其标准的11年周期中逐渐增加，这种固定的周期持续了几千年。
By Darwinist thinking, giraffes got their long necks over millennia because genes for long necks had, very slowly, gained advantage.
据达尔文理论，长颈鹿几千年来的长脖子，是由于长脖子基因在漫长的演变过程中，逐渐占据上风。
You cannot really fail, but have needed assistance to shake off the dark attachments that you have gathered over millennia of time.
你不可能真正的失败，但是需要一定的帮助，才可以摆脱数千年的黑暗压制。
Over millennia of focusing on life-and-death issues, our nervous systems have evolved to pay attention to some things more than others.
千百年来，在关注生老病死的问题上，我们的神经系统已经演化为能够更加关注某些事情，而非其它事情。
So over millennia, we developed a reward system that causes us to seek and change our behavior so we can capture rewarding things to counterbalance the pain.
所以在这一千年中，我们发明了这项奖励制度，它能使我们寻找并且改变我们的行为以至于我们能够获得奖励的东西来平衡那些疼痛。
These authors break the fanfare with two hits: evo psych depends on a relatively static environment over millennia, which evidence shows not to be the case.
这些作者用两个证据对进化论心理学“热潮”进行了挑战：进化论心理学依赖于一个在几千年的时间里相对静止的环境，而证据显示这并非事实。
Lack of oxygen inhibited decay, and heat and pressure over millennia turned the wood into solid quartz colored by impurities like iron, carbon, and manganese.
缺乏氧气的抑制衰减，热量和压力，几千年来，把木材变成坚实的石英色彩的杂质一样，铁，碳，锰。
The descendants of long-time urban dwellers show increased genetically-driven resistance to tuberculosis, due to evolutionary selection pressure over millennia.
长期生活在城市的居民，其后代的遗传基因里，对肺结核的抵抗力更强。
Whiteley said: 'We aim to understand the echolocation process that bats have evolved over millennia and employ similar signals and techniques in engineering systems.
怀特利表示：“我们的目标是理解经过N多年的进化后的蝙蝠的回声定位法的过程，以便能把类似的信号或技术用在我们的工程系统上。”
One theory is that, over millennia of evolution, our immune systems got used to worms. So if you take them away, the immune system runs wild, as it has nothing to work against.
有推测说，经过几千年的进化，我们身体的免疫系统已经习惯了蠕虫的存在，所以如果去除它们，免疫系统就会因没有对抗物而失控。
The elaborate tattoos of the Polynesian cultures are thought to have developed over millennia, featuring highly elaborate geometric designs, which in many cases can cover the whole body.
波利尼西亚文明的纹身据说已有超过千年的历史，有着非常精美的几何设计，在有些情况下覆盖了整个身体。
Nietzsche is saying to the realists then that it's impossible to extract from our current awareness the sedimentations accumulated over millennia of previous animal as well as cultural experience.
尼采当时对现实主义者说,不可能从我们现在的意识中提取,之前数千年的动物性的积累的沉淀,以及文化经历。
The descendants of long-time urban dwellers show increased genetically-driven resistance to tuberculosis, due to evolutionary selection pressure over millennia. Christopher Intagliata reports.
长期生活在城市的居民，其后代的遗传基因里，对肺结核的抵抗力更强。究其原因，是几千年来城市生活进化选择的压力为人类所做出的贡献。
These elements were not constructed with any attempts or notion of the picturesque; however, they are the result of self-organizing systems of structures and processes developed over millennia.
这些元素的建造没有任何目的性和设计性，它们是自然组织的结构系统和近千年的进化。
We know that over the past millennia the climate has undergone major changes without any significant human intervention.
我们知道，在过去的几千年里，气候在没有任何大型的人为干预之下发生了剧大变化。
We've grown more adept at shaping these underground shelters and passages over the millennia, and today we dig for hundreds of reasons.
经过几千年，今天我们能熟练的塑造这些地下避难所或者通道，同时我们有更多的数以百计理由来建造他们。
Over the millennia all manner of styles and materials have been used for shoes.
数千年来，各种造型和原材料用于制鞋。
The sense you gain is that while the circumstances of mankind have changed dramatically over the millennia, human nature is relatively constant.
你从中体会到：人类的生活环境在几千年间发生了翻天覆地的巨变，人性却相对稳定。
Even given the precession of the Earth's rotational axis over the millennia, the Sun continues to rise over Stonehenge in an astronomically significant way.
即使有几千年的地球自转轴的进动，太阳仍然以天文意义上的方式从巨石阵上方升起。
Falling water levels are not the only changes at Lake Suguta over the past several millennia.
在过去的几千年里水位下降并不是苏加塔湖唯一的变化。
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。
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。
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