Few collections could claim to have never been disturbed, yet the innumerable volumes that surrounded him had remained inviolate for seven centuries.
很少有书籍可以宣称，没有被翻阅过，但是那无数的书籍环绕着他，至少有七个世纪被被动过。
Yet, people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago. Nature has apparently been experimenting in this field for million of years.
人们只是在两个世纪前一点才开始了解电的使用原理，自然界却显然在这方面经历过了数百万年。
Alcoholism has been around for centuries, yet no one has discovered an easy way to prevent it.
酗酒这个问题已经存在几百年了，但是至今为止，人们还未找到一种能够轻松阻止它的方式。
For centuries, biologists have known that bird bones are thin and hollow. Yet bird skeletons don't actually weigh any less than the skeletons of similarly sized mammals.
几世纪以来生物学家都知道鸟类的骨头又细又空，但鸟类的骨架并不比相同体积的哺乳动物的轻。
And yet the wildest Pushtun places, especially along the lofty border where the strictest Pushtunwali is practised, have been relatively untouched by outsiders for centuries.
然而，在最荒凉、未开化的普什图人地区，尤其是沿着高山边界的地区，在那里实行着最严格的“普什图瓦里”，在数个世纪以来则相对不为外界所触动。
Yet, people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago. Nature has apparently been experimenting in this field for millions of years.
两个世纪前人们对于电产生原理开始有了了解，而大自然在这方面经历了数百万年。
Yet for a couple of centuries it was the model of form and inspired classicists everywhere.
然而在几个世纪的时间里，它曾一直是形态的楷模，激励了世界各地的古典主义者。
Yet for a couple of centuries it was the model of form and inspired classicists everywhere.
然而在几个世纪的时间里，它曾一直是形态的楷模，激励了世界各地的古典主义者。
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