通常情况下，有可能得出包裹体比其金刚石寄主更古老的结论，但几乎没有说明所涉及的时间间隔。
Usually, it is possible to conclude that the inclusions are older than their diamond hosts, but with little indication of the time interval involved.
直到最近，我们大多数人都以为这些沙子来自附近的一个古老山脉，它随着时间的推移逐渐变得平坦。
Until just recently, most of us thought the sand had come from an ancient mountain range fairly close by that flattened out over time.
维尔博尔德说：“我们还要测量更古老的样品来观察地幔可能是怎样随时间而变化的。”
"We want to measure more ancient samples to see how the mantle might have changed over time," Willbold said.
为了解开这个矛盾，科学家们研究了格陵兰岛伊苏瓦(isua)地区的古老岩石，去观察地球是怎样随着时间而变化的，以及在什么时候贵重金属进入地球。
To help resolve this discrepancy, scientists investigated ancient rocks from Isua, Greenland, to see how the planet changed over time and when precious metals entered the picture.
物理学家肖恩·卡罗尔(Sean Carroll)就是其中之一。他因为尝试去回答一个目前还没有科学家能够真正解释的古老问题，已经有了一点极客圈摇滚明星的感觉；这个问题就是：时间是什么？
Physicist Sean Carroll has become a bit of a rock star in geek circles by attempting to answer an age-old question no scientist has been able to fully explain: What is time?
它也可以解答许多古老的问题，例如暗物质是什么，时间为什么只按一个方向流动，引力是怎样运行的。
It would also answer such enduring puzzles as what dark matter is, the reason time flows in only one direction and how gravity works.
在这次土耳其古老岩层上热气球的拍摄过程中，摄影师毫无疑问预先作好了乐计划，以确保拍摄能具有正确的场所是在合适的时间。
In this shot of hot air balloons over ancient rock formations in Turkey, the photographer no doubt planned ahead to make sure he was in the right place at the right time.
他们认为，更糟的是年轻人对这门珍贵、复杂、古老的造型与色彩的艺术不感兴趣甚至轻视。这门艺术有500年的历史，需要花一生的时间才能精通。
Far worse, from their point of view, is the indifference or contempt of the young for a rich, complex, ancient art of colour and form that goes back 500 years and takes a lifetime to master.
多年以来，怀疑论者一直在提出所谓的时间悖论：即没有发现比始祖鸟更为古老的带羽毛恐龙，因此，鸟类不可能起源于恐龙。
For years, skeptics had raised the so-called temporal paradox: there were no feathered dinosaurs older than Archaeopteryx, so birds could not have arisen from dinosaurs.
自远古以来，鲸鱼一直被披上神秘的色彩--当然它们也的确几乎与时间一样古老，它们存在的时间比它们游过的陆地的历史还长。
Since time immemorial, the whale has been wreathed in mystery—and of course it almost predates time itself, having existed long before the land around which it swims.
这些古老的恒星居于向银河系圆盘上下延伸的恒星晕之中，它们形成的时间很早，早在有机会产生重元素的前几代恒星形成之前。
Residing in the stellar halo extending above and below the galaxy's disk, these stars are so old that they formed before earlier generations of stars had much of a chance to produce heavy elements.
手表也许会成为一件古老而别致的首饰，但正确的时间当然是在你的智能手机上——而它几乎总是在你手里。
Maybe as quaint jewelry, but the correct time is on your smartphone, which is pretty much always in your hand.
勒罗伊说，在相当长的时间里，在这个古老的铁路小镇里，辍学其实不影响找工作。
For a long time in this old railroad town, LeRoy says, dropping out of school didn't keep people from finding a job.
那小小的山谷将被遗弃在幽暗和古老的树木中间，孤独而寂寞地聆听着那些树木的众多舌头长时间地悄声议论着在这里发生过的不为人知的事情。
The dell was to be left a solitude among its dark, old trees, which, with their multitudinous tongues, would whisper long of what had passed there, and no mortal be the wiser.
世上最好的一部英文版欧洲通史是古老的《丰塔纳欧洲历史》，但这本书的内容却有些不一致，并且整套书的编写在时间上没有很好的连贯性。
The best overall European history in English is the old “Fontana History of Europe”, but it was uneven in quality, and it suffered because the volumes appeared so far apart in time.
这只熊的线粒体基因组是目前报告中哺乳动物中最早的了——是猛犸的基因组还要古老近两倍的时间。
The bear's mitochondrial genome is the oldest one yet reported from a mammal-nearly twice as old as the mammoth genome.
这也是古老阿尔班山国家开始征服邻国的时间。
It also is the same time that the ancient Monte alban state started conquering the surrounding regions.
当时间短压力大的时候，回到古老的五段论，可以给你节省时间，增强信心。
When time is short and the pressure is on, falling back on the good old five-paragraph theme can save you time and give you confidence.
格鲁吉亚的古生物学家已发现了五具原始人类的遗骸化石，其时间可追溯到180万年前，这表明人类的一些最古老的祖先当时生活在该地区。
Palaeontologists in Georgia have unearthed remains of five primitive humans that date back to 1.8m years ago, suggesting some of our oldest ancestors lived in the region at the time.
日本研究者们于今年将发起一项研究，通过克隆技术使早已灭绝的猛犸象复生，在5年的时间里将古老的厚皮动物重生。
Japanese researchers will launch a project this year to resurrect the long-extinct mammoth by using cloning technology to bring the ancient pachyderm back to life in around five years time.
其实，把时间往前倒推的话，这个单词的词根先是通过了盎格鲁-撒克逊的影响，然后到达了印欧语系。对于这些最古老单词的词根——听上去与gwen类似——而言，它们最初的意思就是“女人（woman）”。
But the roots of the word run back through Anglo Saxon and into Indo-European and the earliest meanings of the most ancient of these word roots—something that sounded like gwen—was simply “woman.”
在旧世界（欧亚非大陆）这些是不同的角色，但在新世界（美洲大陆），他们随着时间合而为一，你可以在较古老的故事中目睹。
In the old world these were different characters, but in the new world over time they evolved into one which you can see happening in older stories.
现存最古老的鞋发现于美国西部，出现时间粗略地定位在距今1万年以前，它是简单的由植物纤维编织而成的凉鞋。
The oldest preserved shoe remains, dating to roughly 10, 000 years ago from the western United States, are simple sandals woven of plant fibers.
作者认为，这招可能对不听话的驴子管用，但千万别用在一个比美利坚合众国存活时间长达近10倍多的古老国度身上。
That "may be appropriate for donkeys," Kinzer writes, "but not for dealing with a nation ten times older than [the United States]."
阅读那些古老而著名的书籍是节省时间的好方法，不是优秀的作品是不会被保存下来并流传至今的。
Read the old and famous books is a good way to save time, not a good work is not saved and spread so far.
通过这个设备，你能够学到最古老的运行的信号之一的抽样时间是如何做到的以及它是如何工作的。
With this device, you can learn how one of the oldest operating signals of sample time is made and how it works.
多年来，佛罗伦萨的官员一直试图阻止世界各地的游客把这座城市古老的石墙当成“时间胶囊”，书写这样的字句。
For years, officials in Florence have tried to discourage visitors from around the world from using this city's old stone walls as a time capsule for such musings.
凡是由于变革万千而看来似乎是古老久远的时代，一经从时间方面认真地考虑，就会变得切近了。
What seems venerable by an accumulation of changes is reduced to familiarity when we come seriously to consider it solely in connection with time .
凡是由于变革万千而看来似乎是古老久远的时代，一经从时间方面认真地考虑，就会变得切近了。
What seems venerable by an accumulation of changes is reduced to familiarity when we come seriously to consider it solely in connection with time .
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