Cells can stop in their lifetime at some point in the cell cycle and persist for long periods of time.

细胞生命期可以停止在细胞周期的某个点,并保持很长时间

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So war time periods were typically periods of great inflation and debasement of the currency.

所以，战争时期通常是,严重的通货膨胀,和货币改造的时期。

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Moreover, the kids we have are vulnerable for long periods of time and require our resources.

而且，我们的孩子很长一段时间,易受伤害,我们需要保护它们。

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When these tyrannies take place, they last for different periods of time, but when the tyrant is removed, what follows after that is, there is never again in that town a one-man rule of any kind.

当僭主统治步入历史舞台,它走过了很多历史时期,但当它寿终正寝之后,在那座城邦里再也没有出现过,任何形式的独裁者了

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