"Because it's happening so quickly, they haven't had time to adapt and change, if you imagine a climate changing over hundreds of thousands of years, bears and other animals would gradually move into other habitats,but because this is going to happen over decades, it will be too fast for them to adapt and look for other food sources,"

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The concept of the state was fundamentally new to Russia, but gradually came into existence, and his accomplishments had a lot to do with that.

彼得的治国理念对于俄国是前所未闻的,但也逐渐扎下根来,他的功绩即在于此

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So, so far the American landscape is already a work of art, already part of a European memory. Then something else happens: "But gradually the models of those elementary rusticities became stranger and stranger to the eye, the nearer I came to know them.

至此关于美国景色的回忆已经是一件艺术品了，已经包含一部分欧洲记忆，之后发生了一些事：,然而渐渐地，我越熟悉那些田园风光的基本模式,越看它们越觉得陌生。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But gradually it became more and more fun.

但后来就感觉越来越有趣了。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

That's why hermeneutics gradually moved I should say, it didn't desert religion, but it expanded--to the study of the law.

因此诠释学从宗教领域转移到了,应该说，它没有离开宗教，而是延伸到了法学领域。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That ratio may have been higher in the nineteenth century; it's gradually trending down, but it's a slow-moving thing.

在19世纪这个比率要高一些,然后逐渐下降,但这是个缓慢变化的过程

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

There was not fancy, but having a chance, having a beauty together, sitting down around the table, being presented with graduation certificates gradually and individually.

没有幻想，但借此机会，所有人度过了美好时光，他们围坐在桌前，一个一个地,颁发毕业证书。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

They used to pay out typically like 80% of their earnings but it's been gradually going downward and now it's down to like 40%.

过去他们将收益的80%作为股利,但现在正慢慢减少,目前降到了40%

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Politicians are reluctant to cut taxes, but they do it gradually.

政客们虽不愿削减税费，但还是逐渐地那么做了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选