"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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You can adapt it for any sort of possible purpose, but the crucial thing is to keep the distinction between meaning and significance clear."

你可以为任何目的将其改编，但重要的是你必须,将意思和意义分清楚“

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You may have to adapt it to a particular environment, but basically it is copying other ideas.

针对不同的环境，可能需要做些调整，但是基本上就是模仿他人的理论。

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I think they probably also invented a few things, but it was very,very characteristic of the Greeks to borrow from the cultures they encountered and to adapt them, to make them more useful for their own purposes and nothing could be clearer than the alphabet as an example of that.

我认为他们或许也发明过一些事物,但从他们所遇到的文明中进行借鉴,将之应用到自己的生活中去,并使它们更适于希腊人自己的目的,这样的方式也是非常希腊风格的,也没有什么,能比字母表这个例子更能清晰地说明这点了

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They have to adapt it to their own situation, but in many ways they're copying technology.

他们必须要将这些技术与当地国情相结合,但在很多方面他们仍是在重复这些技术

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