A very old, very wrong view of evolution is that evolution has shaped animals such that they're merely survival machines.

非常古老错误的进化论观点认为,进化塑造了动物,他们只是幸存的机器。

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You don't need me to tell you that human civilization is very, very old.

人类的文明是非常非常古老的,这不用我来告诉大家了吧。

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Now, let's go back to a theory which has at least got the virtue of being very old, although hardly anybody believes it anymore.

现在,让我们再回去看一个理论,它的优势在于非常古老,虽然已经没人再相信它

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But Manifest Destiny was a very old American idea.

但命运天定是个非常古老的美国观念

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