America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,NOAA, says the coral reefs that exist today are up to fifty million years old.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

But imagine doing crossword puzzles every day for 10 years, 1,000 years, a million years, a billion years, a trillion years.

但想象往后每天做填字游戏，玩上十年，一千年以至永远。

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Suppose the planet were hit by a comet-- this happened--something like this happened sixty-five million years ago, so it could happen again.

假设这个星球被一颗彗星击中-,这样的事，大约六千五百万年前,发生过，所以它还可能再发生。

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Then,within the last twenty million years, movements in the earth pushed the rock upward, forming the Guadalupe Mountains.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

The problem is that you get tired of doing math after a while, 100 years, 1,000 years, a million years, whatever it is.

问题是经过一段时间后你会厌倦数学，不管是一百年还是一百万年。

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The Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States, for example, are about two hundred million years old.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

Then from 1820 to 1860, the forty years before the war, an estimated roughly two million American slaves were sold to satisfy the need of slave labor in the great cotton kingdom of the growing Southwest.

之后从1820年到1860年,这战争前的四十年间,据粗略统计有大约两百万美国奴隶被出售,以满足西南部,这个日益增长的棉业帝国对奴隶劳工的需求

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The rock formations there are the result of deposits made by ancient lakes and rivers over a period of about twenty million years.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

This Cambridge History of Food talks about three separate primary phases in human food evolution: one beginning a million and a half years ago, another about 700,000 years ago, and then the 10,000 year ago one that I talked about just a moment ago.

剑桥饮食史》描述了,人类饮食结构演化过程中的三个不同阶段,其一,始于一百五十万年前,其二,距今约七十万年,其三,距今一万年,我们刚讨论过了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The researchers used the fossils of a dinosaur that lived one hundred twenty-five million years ago.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

From the fact that after 100,000 years or a million years or whatever it is, eventually life would grow tiresome, that hardly shows that life has grown tiresome after 50 years or 80 years or 100.

虽然经过十万年,或一百万年后，生命会变得了无生趣，但那不能说明经过50，80，百年后,生命会变得无趣。

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Mister Hellsten says to look at parts of the genome of Xenopus tropicalis is to look at structures three hundred sixty million years old.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

.. You might say, optimists are those-- now in this more chastened version of optimism, optimists say, "Even if immortality would be bad eventually after a million years or ten million years or what have you, " the next chunk of life would've been good for all of us."

可以说，乐观主义者是那些-,对于比较保守的乐观主义者，他们会说，“就算一百万年或一千万年之后“,”永生最终是件坏事，但是“,'现在往后的一大段生活对所有人都是美好的“

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This was formed by two explosions of the Jemez volcano more than one million years ago.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

For many years now, to qualify as an accredited investor, you have to have one million dollars in wealth or income in excess of $200,000 or, if you're married, $300,000 for the couple.

一直以来,可信投资者的要求是,你必须有一百万美元的财产,或者年收入超过20万美元,若已婚,则夫妇年收入要超过30万

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Many scientists believe that a huge object from space hit Earth about 65 million years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

Phase One, the million and a half years ago, in the early--in the late--Miocene and early Pleistocene phases, there was shift where people were less likely to be just going out and gathering foods from every place they could find it.

第一阶段,一百五十万年前,在整个中新世以及更新世的早期,情况开始转变,人们不光靠,出门四处搜集食物

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The study showed that pandas have been in existence for up to three million years.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

The small dinosaur is thought to have lived about one hundred twenty-five million years ago.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

The ancestors of these reefs were formed at least two hundred forty million years ago.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

He said the huge continent had split more than two hundred million years ago.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

These creatures lived more than sixty-five million years ago, during Earth's late Cretaceous period.

VOA: special.2010.10.05

Scientists say that most arches seen today developed within the past million years.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

It happened almost sixty million years ago and again thirteen million years ago.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

To understand that, you would have to travel back in time two-hundred-fifty-million years.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

These sandstone structures continued to grow for about one hundred fifty million years.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Scientists say the area began forming almost two thousand million years ago.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

They developed more than a hundred million years before the dinosaurs.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

A large meteorite hit the area four thousand million years ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

The Grand Teton Mountains were formed about ten million years ago.

VOA: special.2009.02.16