Today more than 4, 000 different minerals can be found on Earth. When the planet began to be formed, however, few existed.
地球上目前已发现的矿物超过4000种，然而地球形成之初的矿物种类却寥寥无几。
Today more than 4,000 different minerals can be found on Earth. When the planet began to be formed, however, few existed.
地球上目前已发现的矿物超过4000种，然而地球形成之初的矿物种类却寥寥无几。
It might surprise you to learn that restaurants, as we know them, have only existed for a few centuries.
当你得知我们所知道的餐馆只存在了几个世纪，你可能会感到惊讶。
My impatience with the customs ritual indicated that Chloe, who I had not known existed a few hours ago, had already acquired the status of a craving.
我对海关例行公事的不耐烦暗示着，几小时前我还不知道存在的克洛艾，已经产生了渴望的状态。
In the late twentieth century, archaeologists discovered the remains of a sophisticated people whose settlement might have been the hub of a civilization few people even thought existed.
在20世纪后期，考古学家发现了一个复杂民族的遗迹，他们的居住地可能是一个鲜为人知的文明中心。
Few or any anthropoids are known to have existed in Africa during this period, known as the Eocene epoch.
人们原先不知道在这个被称为“始新世”的时期，非洲有类人猿的存在。
These elements were created in laboratories in the United States, Russia, and Germany. Only a few atoms were created and they only existed for a short time.
这些元素产生于美国、俄罗斯和德国的实验室，而且仅仅制造出了很少的原子并且它们存在时间很短。
Few, if any, scientists think Atlantis actually existed.
几乎没什么科学家会认为亚特兰蒂斯实际存在过。
And email had existed for a few years before that, between different terminals on single mainframes; the first true email sent between different computers was not sent until 1971.
电子邮件出现在更早的几年前，它是在一台主机的不同终端之间实现的；第一封真实的电子邮件直到1971年才在不同的电脑之间发送成功。
Any number of people told me about going back home after a few years away, only to find the streets where they grew up had vanished as completely as if they had never existed.
很多人告诉我，他们离开几年后回来时，竟然发现他们从小长大的街道完全不见了，好象它们从来就没存在过。
For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy-enforced through the rights of the firstborn son-has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
几乎从文明出现开始，尤其是，第一胎儿子就有优先权——几无例外地，已经形成了准则。
Humanity has existed somewhere between the two, believing that Heaven was only available to a chosen few after death.
人类以某种方式存在于这两者之间，过去一直相信天堂仅仅只能是在经历死亡之后的一个短暂的挑选过程。
Where dark Spaces in the sky had usually existed, there were now dense clusters of sparkling stars Shooting stars flashed across the canvas every few seconds.
黑暗的天空就像一块幕布，布满繁星点点，时不时还有淘气的流星划过。
In addition, Ty would retire certain models after the initial stock-run had sold out, making the few that existed prized possessions.
另外，Ty在最初的库存售完后，有些型号的玩具就不再生产了，只留几个作为珍贵的收藏。
The reason there are so few unicorn sightings today isn't because they are mythical creatures that never existed, but because of modern society's moral depravity.
这些年很少有人见到独角兽，这并非因为那都是童话，现实里压根就不存在什么的。
If cloning had existed a few centuries ago, men with strong backs and women with broad pelvises would have been the first ones society would have wanted to reproduce.
如果苦于世纪前就存在克隆，那么社会想复制的第一批人就是那些背部结实的男人和骨盆宽大的女人。
And made a few phone calls and was really delighted to find out that the VIP tour services still existed.
所以我就打了几个电话(去问)，非常开心的是发现贵宾导游的服务现在还有。
And I thought, "Well, they must still do it," and made a few phone calls and was really delighted to find out that the VIP tour services still existed.
所以打了几个电话，当知道还有贵宾导游服务时，我真的高兴极了。
The conventional view that few antidumping cases existed prior to 1980 is not correct, although most did not result in the imposition of duties.
即使绝大多数讼案结果尚未涉及到关税课征的问题，但那种认为1980年以前几乎不存在反倾销的传统观点也绝非正确。
If you just want to slap a blog together, write a few things to put on it, and then forget it ever existed, you're probably best sticking with Project Payday.
如果你只是想掴共同的博客，写一些东西来把它，然后忘记它曾经存在过，你可能最好的坚持与项目发薪。
The results indicated that a few of the rare-earth elements existed in the matrix, and most of that formed metallic composite with magnesium and distributed in the interface.
结果表明，添加的镧镨铈混合稀土，只有少量固熔在镁基体中，绝大部分形成了稀土化合物，沿晶界呈网状分布。
In the experiment of measuring gravity acceleration with a pendulum, a few error factors are existed, such as complex pendulum, air buoyancy, air resistance and initial displacement.
在利用单摆测重力加速度实验中，有复摆、空气浮力、空气阻力、摆角等多种误差因素。
A few years ago, group-buying websites hardly existed.
几年前，团购网站几乎还不存在。
These supersensitive images have uncovered galaxies that existed when the universe was only a few hundred million years old, about 5 percent of its present age.
这些超高解析度影像揭露了在宇宙年龄只有数百万年，约今日年龄的5%时就已存在的星系。
In the 1970's, when few protected area existed in any ocean, human population was significantly smaller and the demands on natural resources far less than at present — or in the future.
70年代，建立海洋保护区还是鲜为人知的事儿。当时，人口数量也比现在少得多，对自然资源的需求比现在或者将来要小得多。
In the 1970's, when few protected area existed in any ocean, human population was significantly smaller and the demands on natural resources far less than at present — or in the future.
70年代，建立海洋保护区还是鲜为人知的事儿。当时，人口数量也比现在少得多，对自然资源的需求比现在或者将来要小得多。
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