For centuries, the annual floods of the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates, for example, have brought fertile silts and water to the inhabitants of their lower valleys.
比如，几个世纪以来，尼罗河、底格里斯河和幼发拉底河每年的洪水给下游山谷的居民带来了肥沃的淤泥和水源。
Herbs have been used for centuries to make refreshing drinks.
草药用于调制清凉饮料已有几百年的历史了。
For centuries, quilting and patchwork have been popular needlecrafts.
几个世纪以来，被褥绗缝和拼缝一直是流行的针线活。
Herbs have been used for centuries to endow a whole range of foods with subtle flavours.
香草几个世纪以来一直被用来赋予各种食品细腻的味道。
It's been believed for centuries that great writers, composers, and scientists are essentially quite different from ordinary people.
几个世纪以来人们都认为伟大的作家、作曲家和科学家本质上与常人大不相同。
Chinese people have been celebrating it for centuries.
几个世纪以来，中国人民一直为此庆祝纪念。
For centuries, salt was also hard to get.
几个世纪以来，盐也很难买到。
Chinese people have been using traditional Chinese medicine for centuries.
中国人使用中药已经有几个世纪了。
For centuries, children in North China wore tiger-head shoes.
几个世纪以来，中国北方的孩子都穿虎头鞋。
People have been eating pizza, in one form or another, for centuries.
几个世纪以来，人们一直吃各种形式的披萨。
Who is a genius? This question has greatly interested humankind for centuries.
几个世纪以来，“谁是天才”这个问题引起了人类极大的兴趣。
Chinese people have been celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival and enjoying mooncakes for centuries.
中国人庆祝中秋节和吃月饼的历史已经有几个世纪长了。
The BBC's documentary Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet explains why Du's works have been popular for centuries.
英国广播公司的纪录片《杜甫：中国最伟大的诗人》中，解释了几百年来杜甫的作品广受欢迎的原因。
For centuries one important ingredient was missing—the first tomatoes were not brought to Europe until the sixteenth century, from South America.
几世纪以来，一种重要的佐料却找不到了——第一批西红柿直到16世纪才从南美洲传到欧洲。
For centuries, much land has been devoted to rice-planting and many Chinese people are farmers, who work very hard for each grain.
几个世纪以来，许多土地都奉献于水稻种植，许多中国人都是农民，他们为每粒粮食而辛勤劳作。
Not many of our readers would choose to go for a swim in such low temperatures, but in some countries, ice swimming has been popular for centuries.
我们的读者中没有多少人会选择在如此低温下游泳，但在某些国家，冰泳已经流行了好几个世纪。
What will remain of us when artificial intelligence takes over will be our creativity, and it is our creative spirit, our visionary sense of freshness, that has been our strength for centuries.
当人工智能取代我们的时候，我们剩下的将是我们的创造力，而几个世纪以来，正是我们的创造精神，我们富有远见的新颖，成为了我们的力量。
This "Floating City" has attracted visitors for centuries.
几个世纪以来，这座“漂浮的城市”一直吸引着游客。
For centuries, medicine was impotent and hence unproblematic.
几个世纪以来，医学无能为力，因此没有问题。
For centuries, Native Americans traded with European settlers.
美洲印第安人和欧洲殖民者做了几百年的生意。
Humanity has been trying to use the sun's light as a reliable source of energy for centuries.
几个世纪以来，人类一直试图利用太阳的光作为可靠的能源。
After this remote Pacific island was settled by the Polynesians, it remained isolated for centuries.
在波利尼西亚人定居后，这个偏远的太平洋岛屿几个世纪以来一直与世隔绝。
For centuries he braved arctic cold, tropic heat and inhuman privations to wrest gold from the earth.
几个世纪以来，他冒着北极的严寒、热带的酷暑和非人的贫困，从地球上攫取黄金。
Humans have been damaging the environment for centuries by overcutting trees and farming too intensively.
几个世纪以来，人类过度砍伐树木及过度集约耕作，一直在破坏环境。
Having survived there for centuries, they believe their wealth of traditional knowledge is vital to the task.
在那里生活了几个世纪后，他们相信自己丰富的传统知识对完成这项任务至关重要。
For centuries, transits of Venus have drawn explorers and astronomers alike to the four corners of the globe.
几个世纪以来，金星凌日吸引了探险家和天文学家们汇聚到地球的四个角落。
The study of law has been recognized for centuries as a basic intellectual discipline in European universities.
几个世纪以来，法律研究一直被视为欧洲大学的一门基础知识学科。
Great changes have taken place in towns that we have lived in for centuries, while completely new cities are being built.
我们居住了几个世纪的城镇已经发生了巨大的变化，而全新的城市正在建设中。
These spices literarily dominated the way Europeans lived for centuries, how they traded and even how they used their imaginations.
几个世纪以来，这些香料可以说是主导了欧洲人的生活方式、贸易方式，甚至是他们发挥想象力的方式。
For centuries Oxford has been at Britain's intellectual heart, perhaps the most prestigious among Europe's many ancient universities.
几个世纪以来，牛津大学一直是英国知识分子的中心，它或许是欧洲众多古老大学中最负盛名的。
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