一个半世纪后，我们发现自己处以他预见的那个世界里，那里每个人的生活都是实验性的、临时性的，任何时候都能发生突然的毁灭。
A century and a half later we find ourselves in the world he anticipated, where everyone's life is experimental and provisional, and sudden ruin can happen at any time.
在18世纪的英格兰人们相信槲寄生可以创造或毁灭一个女性的婚姻前景。
In 18th century England it was believed the mistletoe could make or break a woman's marital prospects.
以往几个世纪人口的增长并不能证明人口会无限地直线向上增长直到毁灭的 地步。
The growth of population during the past few centuries is no proof that population will continue to grow straight upward toward infinity and doom.
咸海的毁灭是二十世纪大型工程灾难，这个失误的规模太大了，只能从太空中捕捉其图片。
The destruction of the Aral Sea is one of the great engineering disasters of the 20th century, a mistake on a scale so vast that photographs from space are needed to capture it.
上一个世纪，美国和俄罗斯的几代人继承了可以毁灭其他国家的力量，同时也认识到使用这种力量也会造成自身的毁灭。
In the last century, generations of Americans and Russians inherited the power to destroy nations, and the understanding that using that power would bring about our own destruction.
虽然他们只有半个多世纪的影响历史，但是对核毁灭的恐惧已永久改变了战争面貌。
Although they have only had a little more than a half-century of impacton history, the fear of nuclear annihilation has permanentlytransformed the face of warfare.
欧洲在中世纪，也就是黑死病猖獗的14世纪，毁灭了大部分橡树、柏树和桦树。
Europe razed almost half its temperate oak-, beech- and birch-woods in the Middle Ages, an onslaught only briefly reversed by an outbreak of bubonic plague in the 14th century.
但19世纪的捕猎使其大部分被毁灭，据国际自然保护联盟(IUCN)的数据，仅19世纪40年代被屠宰的露脊鲸就多达3万只。
But hunting in the 19th century wiped out most of them, with up to30, 000 slaughtered in the 1840s alone, according to the InternationalUnion for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
北欧地区将会迎来新的冰河世纪，海平面会毁灭性的上升高达4米以至于在下个世纪内淹没我们的星球。 气候研究领域顶尖科学家们已经排除了先前的这种预测。
The chances of northern Europe facing a new ice age, or of catastrophic sea-level rises of almost four metres that swamp the planet over the next century, have been ruled out by leading scientists.
20世纪60年代苏联的偷猎，又毁灭了数百只以上，使北太平洋露脊鲸成为可能是地球上最为濒危的鲸鱼种类。
Poaching by the Soviet Union during the 1960s claimed severalhundred more, making Eubalaena japonica probably the most endangeredspecies of whale on Earth.
在日本，从20世纪90年代以来，正当这个国家臭名昭著的房地产泡沫破裂造成的毁灭性的后果的时候，拥有一套房子相对于租一套房子已经越来越便宜。
In Japan owning has been getting cheaper relative to renting since 1990, when the country's infamous property bubble burst with devastating effect.
现在毁灭一个文明我们只需要一秒钟，可是创造文明我们需要好几个世纪。
It takes only a second to destroy a civilization, but it takes centuries to create it.
几世纪前，当查尔入侵阿斯·卡隆城时，亚德尔本王用毁灭性的业火将敌人阻挡在门外。
When the charr invaded the human kingdom of Ascalon centuries ago, king Adelbern invoked the devastating Foefire to keep the enemy from the gates.
你可以想象，当他们研究从15世纪起老牌帝国与新兴国家通过战争争夺霸权的情况时，历史上关于战争与毁灭的史实在他们面前一览无余。
You can imagine history's grim inventory of war and destruction being laid out before them as they examined how, from the 15th century, empires and upstarts had often fought for supremacy.
19世纪俄罗斯文学讽刺艺术的审美特征，为：含泪的微笑及毁灭性、荒诞式的讽刺。
The aesthetic feature of the Russian literature in the 19th century was:the tearful smiling and crushed nature;
万佛信箱：请问法师对本世纪末、下世纪初，人类将有毁灭性大灾难的预言有何看法？
Ten Thousand Buddhas Column: What View Does the Dharma Master Take of the Prophecy That There Will Be a Great Disaster That Will Extinguish the Human Race at the Turn of the Century?
我尤其记得亚历山大图书馆的那一段，它是如何被毁灭并使科学倒退了几个世纪。
I especially remember the segment on the Library of Alexandria and how its destruction held back science for centuries.
近代之前，人类对感染了解甚少，遭受到多种毁灭性流行病，例如14世纪的黑死病。
Before modern times humans had little understanding about infection and were subject to multiple devastating pandemics, such as the Black Death of the 14th century.
近代之前，人类对感染了解甚少，遭受到多种毁灭性流行病，例如14世纪的黑死病。
Before modern times humans had little understanding about infection and were subject to multiple devastating pandemics, such as the Black Death of the 14th century.
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