虽然在地质记录中有十几次甚至更多的大灭绝，但白垩纪的大灭绝总是引起古生物学家的兴趣，因为它标志着恐龙时代的结束。
While there are a dozen or more mass extinctions in the geological record, the Cretaceous mass extinction has always intrigued paleontologists because it marks the end of the age of the dinosaurs.
例如，随着覆盖北美的大冰原在最后一个冰河时代逐渐融化，大量的水从冰原流出。
For example, as the great ice sheets that covered North America during the last ice age steadily melted away, huge volumes of water flowed from them.
西拉尔达大寺院是阿尔默哈德时代的建筑杰作。
The Giralda minaret is the masterpiece of Almohad architecture.
上周，时代周刊将另一个与艾滋病相关的发现提名到2010年度10大医学突破的名单中。
Last week, Time named another AIDS-related discovery to its list of the Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2010.
我们的摩登时代欠了1979年大动乱太多的债，却没人发现报应正在逼近。
Our modern age owes much to the Great Backlash of 1979. And no one saw it coming.
拥有自己灵魂的玩偶的概念是木偶剧世界探讨的一大主题，其中首次提及的日期可以追溯到平安时代。
The notion of dolls possessing souls of their own was a theme that came to be explored in the world of puppet theater, the first references to which also date from Heian times.
一开始，这么做仅仅只是为了驱走天气的寒冷，那时世界刚刚进入大冰期时代。
At first, this was merely for function: to keep out the cold weather of the world only beginning to emerge from the great ice age.
在一些方面，加利福利亚现在已经颠倒了大布朗时代中优先考虑的事了。
In some ways, California has now inverted the priorities of the older Brown's era.
他虽然比普通人个子大很多，但人们并不会感到惊异，因为在那个时代有生理缺陷极为寻常。
He was so much bigger than everybody else, so people really were not taken aback, because this was a time when physical imperfections were commonplace.
这些大灭绝中最近的一次也是人们最熟悉的一次，终结了恐龙时代。
The most recent of the Big Five is the most familiar one—the cataclysm that ended the Age of Dinosaurs.
怀旧是大的娱乐公司对于在数码时代控制自己发行内容保护的最好的形容词。
Nostalgic is the best adjective I’ve heard to describe how most large entertainment companies think about controlling their content in a digital era.
信息时代中，普通人要创业更易，而大企业想要守住江山，却难上加难。
The information age is making it ever easier for ordinary people to start businesses and harder for incumbents to defend their territory.
这个温度变化范围中最大的部分比从上个冰河时代末期到现在的10000年间人类经历的温度变化还要大。
The higher half of range involves temperature changes outside of those experienced by human civilizations since the end of the last ice age some 10,000 years ago.
他的第一笔大买卖是在1987年买下了当时比WPP大13倍的智威汤逊广告公司。这使得《广告时代》将其推至题为“将称王的男人”的头条进行报道。
His first big deal was the purchase in 1987 of J Walter Thompson, then 13 times bigger than WPP, which led Advertising Age to feature him under the headline, "the Man Who Would Be King".
但是，在这个容易寻到足迹的数字化时代，偷腥和被捉奸在床的的几率比以往任何时代都大。
But in an era of easily followed digital footprints, the chances of catting around and being caught are greater than ever.
他们出现在“大温和”时代，一个宏观经济稳定、思维一致的时代。
They came of age during the Great Moderation, a period of macroeconomic tranquillity and intellectual consensus.
大概是一次冰河时代导致了这场大灭绝。南半球表面形成的一个巨大的冰盖引起了全球气候剧变，海平面剧变下降，导致海水中化学成份变得混乱。
An ice age has been blamed for the extinctions - a huge ice sheet in the southern hemisphere caused climate change and a fall in sea level, and messed with the chemistry of the oceans.
在寒武纪生物大爆发这时候降生-我实在没法设想一个更好的时代了，真的。
To be born during this, the Cambrian Explosion—why, I couldn't imagine a better period, really.
现在，一般可以在48街街角和第七大道周边看到他，那里距时代广场中心一到两个街区。
Now he is usually seen around the corner of 48th Street and Seventh Avenue, a block or two from the heart of Times Square.
自从她的童年时代过去后，我承认我不喜欢她了；我为了要改掉她那妄自尊大的脾气，我常常惹恼她，尽管她从来没有对我采取憎厌的态度。
I own I did not like her, after her infancy was past; and I vexed her frequently by trying to bring down her arrogance: she never took an aversion to me, though.
如果你能，或许23世纪的历史电子书上不会把这个时代叫做大停滞时代。他们可能叫他，大觉醒时代。
If you can, maybe the history e-books of the 23rd century won't call this era a Great Stagnation. They might just call it, instead, a Great Awakening.
在这种大背景下，贵公司严苛的无弹性工作时间政策有些落伍于时代了。
Against that backdrop, your company's rigid no-flextime policy seems out of step with The Times.
但是，在这个容易寻到足迹的数字化时代，偷腥和被捉奸在床的的几率比以往任何时代都大。所以，为什么还要撒谎呢？为什么还要喊冤呢？
But in an era of easily followed digital footprints, the chances of catting around and being caught are greater than ever. So why cheat and tweet?
注意力的销蚀是理解为什么我们正处于一个文化和社会大损失时代拐点的关键。
The erosion of attention is the key to understanding why we are on the cusp of a time of widespread cultural and social losses.
那时我才发现,在爱尔兰问路所用的英语和我们在中学时代学的差异相当大.
Only then did I realize the difference between the English in real scene and the English we had learnt in school.
电视业艰难挺过了大衰退时期，进入了绝无仅有的美好时代。
For television firms stumbling out of recession, it could not have come at a better time.
美国《时代》杂志近日评出年度50大发明，榜单被分为“科技产品”、“交通工具”、“健康医药用品”、“生物工程”、“绿色能源”等10个类别。
Time Magazine has released a list of this year's top 50 inventions. The breakthroughs fall into 10 categories, such as technology, transportation, health and medicine, bioengineering and green energy.
美国《时代》杂志近日评出年度50大发明，榜单被分为“科技产品”、“交通工具”、“健康医药用品”、“生物工程”、“绿色能源”等10个类别。
Time Magazine has released a list of this year's top 50 inventions. The breakthroughs fall into 10 categories, such as technology, transportation, health and medicine, bioengineering and green energy.
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