但近年来，人们把目光投向了更遥远的过去，那时候欧洲森林里到处都是大象、犀牛以及大型猫科动物。
But in recent years people have set their sights on the more distant past, when Europe's forests were filled with elephants, rhinoceroses and big cats.
在遥远的过去，像乳齿象这样的大型食草动物播撒着桑橙属植物的种子，在它们的粪便中，每个种子都像橙子那么大。
In the distant past, large herbivores like mastodons dispersed maclura seeds, each the size of an orange in their droppings.
那种风俗在遥远的过去曾经流行。
那些挥霍无度的巨星早已消失在了黯淡遥远的过去。
The giant stars, spendthrifts, were gone long ago, back in the dimmest of the dim far past.
机会是你已经通过其中一人坐在在不太遥远的过去。
The chances are that you've sat through one of them in the not too distant past.
敲响当下的钟，你会听到遥远的过去和未来的回声。
Ring the bell of the present, and you will hear the distant echoes of the infinite past and future.
但是，历史学家企图重现遥远的过去可是一项艰巨的任务。
But the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult task.
我们两国人民之间的传统的友谊，可以追溯到遥远的过去。
The traditional friendship between people in our two countries can be traced back to far past.
后来这些石块证实，在遥远的过去，南极洲曾经被植被覆盖。
Later, these rocks proved that at one time in the distant past the Antarctic was covered by plants.
我一直追逐神往的东西，它不在遥远的未来，而在遥远的过去。
What I yearn for and chase after is not in the distant future, but in the remote past.
多亏皮尔森教授的苦心研究，我们的时光机器才能够顺利运转，回到更遥远的过去。
Thanks to Professor Pearson's painstaking researches, the time machine can be ridden smoothly much further.
因为自行车会把你的思绪带回到遥远的过去，也会把你的性灵引入到灿烂的未来。
Because his bicycle would bring the feeling back to the past, and introduce the spirituality to the splendid future.
你会遇到不同的情况，返回到你遥远的过去，那将会影响到你一系列的忧郁情绪。
You will meet circumstances which return you to events of the remote past, which can cause in you a kind of melancholy of passage.
而重要的是，你必需意识到，姓氏和名字更改拼法，这中状况可不会只是出现在遥远的过去喔。
It is more important to be aware that both surnames and forenames are subject to variations in spelling, and not only in the distant past.
他们认为，根据对在遥远的过去的起源，地球表面的油，是从生活在海中形成的东西。
They think that the oil under the surface of the earth originated in the distant past, and was formed from living things in the sea.
托马斯教授说：“回溯到遥远的过去，生命始于浮游生物，因此我们应该非常感谢它们。”
Professor Thomas said: "if you go back far enough in time, life started in the plankton, so we owe it a remarkable debt."
《孔子》引领观众走入一个遥远的过去，那是一个黄金时代，哲学家等似乎都耳熟能详。
Confucius takes its audience on a journey into the past, an era when everything we see, from the philosophers to the volleys of arrows, has a familiar ring.
在遥远的过去的最黑暗区域，西斯全力出击，寻求将他们黑暗的意志施加给胆战心惊的公众。
In the darkest reaches of the distant past, the Sith would strike in full force, seeking to exert their dark will upon a terrified public.
在不太遥远的过去，我们所认为的完好无损的热带森林经受过重大干扰，并仍然继续成长过程。
Tropical forests that we think of as intact [could have] suffered major disturbances in the not-too-distant past and are still in the process of growing back.
很多人认为，在遥远的过去，人类通过了饥饿、寒冷等自然选择的严峻考验后，便不再进化了。
Many have assumed that humans ceased to evolve in the distant past, perhaps when people first learned to protect themselves against cold, famine and other harsh agents of natural selection.
那么，我们这个最近的邻居来自何方，未来又将怎样？为了回答这些问题，我们必须回到遥远的过去。
Where then, did our nearest neighbor in space come from, and what will the future bring? To answer these questions we must go very far back into time.
许多地质特征像峡谷，干涸的湖和河渠道，显示出了在遥远的过去，可能是火星的暖期有水流流动。
Many geological features like canyons, dried-up lakes and river channels point to the flow of liquid water in the distant past when Mars may have been warmer.
科学家如何把今天的气候与遥远的过去进行比较，也就是早在人类还无法用文字记录天气情况的早期？
How can scientists compare today's climate to conditions of the distant past, long before humans started happily jotting down records of the weather?
在遥远的过去发生的事件的记忆是保持不变的，而那些发生在中间时间段的就会丢失不同程度的信息。
The memories of events that took place in the distant past remain intact, whereas those that occurred at intermediate times are lost in a graded manner.
由于观测距离很远，光线要花很长时间才能到达地球，天文学家才能在现代观察到遥远的过去的景象。
By looking very far away, because the light takes so long on its journey to reach the Earth, astronomers are effectively able to look back in time to this early era.
由于观测距离很远，光线要花很长时间才能到达地球，天文学家才能在现代观察到遥远的过去的景象。
By looking very far away, because the light takes so long on its journey to reach the Earth, astronomers are effectively able to look back in time to this early era.
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