By comparison, each weed plant can produce tens or even hundreds of thousands of seeds.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

In fact, there's evidence that even thousands of years ago, Indian and Chinese healers were using a form of something that we would recognize as vaccination.

事实上,有证据表明在几千年前,印度和中国的医生就在使用一种,类似于疫苗的东西

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And so one could say that there is a very unfortunate mismatch between our biology and our evolution and the modern food environment, because biology of course takes thousands and thousands, millions of years even to change, but the food environment has changed relatively recently.

可以说,在人类的生物进化和现在的,食品环境之间存在着非常不幸的脱节,生物学上的改变要花上,成千上万年的时间,但是食品环境却可以在短时间内迅速改变

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But each weed plant can produce tens or even hundreds of thousands of seeds.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

Hundreds of thousands. Some factories -- even some industries -- seemed completely British.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Thousands were killed or wounded. Northern losses were even greater.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Thousands of people gathered outside the embassy early Tuesday, even after the interim government imposed a ban on public gatherings and a curfew.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

I pulled him out because even if he graduates, he cannot find a job. During the weekend, thousands of activists marched to the Lebanese capital to demand rights for Palestinians.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

While the internet and social networking sites are helping people connect with each other and breaking social barriers inside Iran, it's also giving Iranians all over the world a connection with one another, and support for each other even from thousands of miles away.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15