Those simultaneous challenges appear less overwhelming with increasingly better answers to a centuries-old question: how to make power portable.
这些同时出现的挑战似乎没有那么势不可挡。对于一个存在了几个世纪的问题——如何让电力变得便携——它们给出了越来越好的答案。
These include the centuries-old custom of "bul", where leaders would call a temporary stop to fishing for key species in order to give fish stocks an opportunity to replenish.
这些传统包括几个世纪以来被称之为“bul”的旧习俗，领导人会要求暂停捕捞一些重要种类的鱼，给鱼类总储备量繁衍补充的机会。
Their massive wake creates waves at the bottom of the sea, weakening the foundations of the centuries-old buildings themselves.
它们巨大的尾流在海底形成浪潮，损坏了有数百年历史的建筑本身的地基。
Now the centuries-old preference for sons is eroding—or even reversing.
如今，人们上百年来对儿子的偏好，正被削弱，甚至扭转。
They were the aristocrats of technical knowledge, presiding over a centuries-old regime.
这些技术贵族统治该领域长达一个世纪。
But market analysts say the centuries-old time-telling tool is trying to make a comeback.
但是，市场分析人士认为这种古老的计时工具正在回归潮流。
The results of both studies are likely to be controversial, perhaps resurrecting a centuries-old debate.
上述两项研究成果颇受争议，甚至复苏了数百年前的论战。
This is a centuries-old industry, governed by the world’s oldest food law, the 1516 Reinheitsgebot (purity law).
这是一种世纪工业，由世界最古老的食品法——1516 年《德国啤酒纯度法》指导的工业。
Chris Moss joins a walking holiday in the Couserans that lets visitors join in the centuries-old festivities.
作者克里斯·莫斯参加了一个在库兹郎(Couserans)地区的徒步假日，游客可以亲身体验这个古老的庆典活动。
This makes perfect sense, especially in a region where traditional medicine has an ancient centuries-old home.
这非常有意义，尤其是在传统医药已有数千年历史的地区。
While the research might be biological, the ability to make headway on this centuries-old problem is technological.
虽然这项研究可能是生物学的范畴，但在这个持续数世纪的难题上取得的进展却是靠技术的力量。
Waiter: It also tastes good. Our centuries-old restaurant is well known for specializing in this particular dish.
服务员：吃起来也很棒。我们餐馆是有着数百年历史的餐馆，因专长做这道菜而闻名。
Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have found a likely solution to a centuries-old riddle of the night sky.
通过NASA的斯皮策太空望远镜，天文学家们很可能为夜空中的一个古老的谜题找到了答案。
When the Germans began laying tracks in 1904, construction followed along the centuries-old caravan route cleared by Arab traders.
当德国人在1904年开始铺设路轨时，铁路是沿着有几个世纪历史的阿拉伯商人开辟的马车路建设的。
A blown-up photograph of carefully painted crackle marks that cunningly mimic the look of centuries-old paint elicits a smile.
有一幅放大了的照片很能引人会心一笑，照片里，被仔细画上的裂纹狡猾地模仿了古老画作的外表。
Many of the centuries-old buildings in L'Aquila, where the 6.3-magnitude quake struck overnight Sunday, sustained severe damage.
拉奎拉省的很多年代久远的建筑在周日晚发生的6.3级地震中遭受了严重破坏。
A centuries-old tradition of wearing a white horse-hair wig in court ended for many judges when a simpler new dress code came into force.
一项更为简便的新着装规范开始实行，对许多法官而言，延续数百年在法庭上戴白色马尾假发的传统就此结束。
A costumed man representing Satan and known as El Colacho leaps over babies in a centuries-old ritual meant to protect them from evil spirits.
一位身着传统服装的人代表着名为EIColacho的恶魔，从一些婴儿身上跃过。 这种有一个世纪历史的古老仪式是意味着将恶灵从婴儿们身边驱走。
The Commonwealth countries agreed Friday to change centuries-old rules of succession that put sons on the throne ahead of any older sisters.
本周五，联盟体已达成协议，表示要颠覆百年来男性在王位继承上优于女性的传统。
The centuries-old practice has been condemned by gender rights groups but defended by Zulus as means of combating teenage pregnancy and HIV。
这个习俗已经延续了几百年，招致性别平等组织的谴责，对此祖鲁人辩护称这只是针对青少年早孕、青少年艾滋病等问题的预防手段。
But aside from avoiding cigarette smoke, roller coasters and deli meats, there's only so much that we can do to control this centuries-old tradition.
但除了避免抽烟、环滑铁道和熟食肉类，这也仅是我们能做的，控制着这悠久的传统。
Locals have nicknamed it "blue diamond"; its colour comes from being cleaved from centuries-old compressed ice at the ancient heart of the glacier.
当地人称它为“蓝钻石“；它的颜色来自于古老冰川中心几个世纪压缩冰的崩裂。
The case came just months after Lord Judge warned that the misuse of the Internet was a major threat to the future of our centuries-old jury system.
案发后几个月主法官警告说，滥用互联网对于我们的百年陪审员制度来说，是一个重大的威胁。
Welcome to the hutong; centuries-old, tree-lined alleyways that are the true heartbeat of this unique city and a real-life link to its fascinating past.
欢迎来到胡同，这个拥有几百年历史的林荫道，它是这个城市的精髓所在，它将动人的历史照进生活。
In Sweden the fish are grilled, smoked, fried, roasted, or dropped into soup for the autumn eel party, a centuries-old tradition on the Skåne coast in the south.
在瑞典，人们烧烤、熏制、油炸、烘烤鳗鱼或把它们放进为秋季鳗鱼派对准备的汤里，这是南部的斯科纳海岸有着数百年历史的传统。
China, with its 1.3 billion people, and the Arab world, with its several hundred million people, both shoulder the sacred mission of renewing our centuries-old civilizations.
拥有13亿人口的中国同拥有数亿人口的阿拉伯世界，都肩负着让古老文明焕发青春的神圣使命。
The Oscar-winning actor is a centuries-old real-life vampire -- according to an antique photo collector who`s selling a Civil-War era photo of a man who is near-identical to Cage.
一位喜爱收藏老照片的卖家正在出售一张南北战争时期的照片，照片中男子的长相与凯奇异常相似。 该卖家声称，这位奥斯卡影帝其实是活了一世纪的现实版吸血鬼。
The Oscar-winning actor is a centuries-old real-life vampire -- according to an antique photo collector who`s selling a Civil-War era photo of a man who is near-identical to Cage.
一位喜爱收藏老照片的卖家正在出售一张南北战争时期的照片，照片中男子的长相与凯奇异常相似。 该卖家声称，这位奥斯卡影帝其实是活了一世纪的现实版吸血鬼。
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