这个特别的地方归一位前陆军上校掌管。
前陆军上校贝克杰抓住了机会。
Isea先生是一名前陆军上尉，对经济问题只有有限的了解。
Mr Isea is a former army lieutenant, with a limited background in economics.
英国前陆军上尉斯塔福德花了859天从秘鲁山脉中的亚马孙河源头走到该河在巴西的入海口，成为历史上第一个徒步走完亚马孙河的人。
Former British Army captain Ed Stafford, 33, spent 859 days to becoming the first man in history to walk from the source of the Amazon in the mountains of Peru to its mouth in Brazil.
两天前我开始陆续收到关于兔子的信件，到目前为止已经有三十封了。
The bunny letters started arriving just two days ago. I've already received 30.
87年前，我们的先辈们在这个大陆上创立了一个新国家，它孕育于自由之中，奉行一切人生来平等的原则。
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
公元前5世纪，雅典经过海洋和陆地长期艰苦的征战成为爱琴海霸主。
Athens fought long and hard, in conflicts on the sea and on land, to become leader of all Aegean city-states by the early 5th century BC.
几星期前我丈夫参加了一个名叫海军陆战队泥地奔跑的趣味活动。
A few weeks ago my husband participated in a fun event called the Marine Corps Mud Run.
我曾经看到过这些海军陆战队士兵在执行巡逻任务前互相拥抱的场景- - -那是真正的拥抱，就好像他们会猜到今生再无机会相见那样。
I had seen these Marines hug each other before heading out on patrol — real hugs, as if they guessed they might not see each other again.
今年排行榜前300名中，中国共有16所大学上榜，其中8所来自中国大陆。
A total of 16 Chinese universities made the top 300 chart this year, among which 8 are from the Chinese mainland.
十年前这样的项目还非常少，并且运营规模很小，但是现在这些项目覆盖了每块大陆——甚至是纽约市——并且使几百万人受益。
Ten years ago there were a handful of such programmes and most were small. Now they are on every continent—even New York City has one—and they benefit millions.
多数会众成员在礼拜开始前几分钟陆续到达。
Most members of the congregation begin arriving a few minutes before services.
当夏威夷群岛从大约500万年前开始以火山的形式出现在海面上时，它们远离其他陆地板块。
When the Hawaiian Islands emerged from the sea as volcanoes, starting about five million years ago, they were far removed from other landmasses.
十年前，这个岛的生态系统处于混乱状态，野猪吸引了来自大陆的金雕，而那些飞行的捕食者又使狐狸的数量锐减。
A decade ago, this island's ecosystem was in chaos. Wild pigs attracted golden eagles from the mainland, and those flying predators crashed the fox population.
在比赛结束前，球迷们陆续离开球场回家了。
大约2.5亿年前，地球只有一块大陆，称作原始大陆。
Some 250 million years ago, the Earth contained a single landmass known as Pangaea.
早在500多万年前，构造作用造成地面抬升，海平面下降，使里海被陆地包围。
Tectonic forces uplifting the land and a drop in sea level left the Caspian landlocked more than 5 million years ago.
传统观点认为，最初定居美洲的古人类大约在一万一千年前跨越西伯利亚与阿拉斯加州之间的大陆桥抵达美洲。
The traditional view is that the continent's early settlers arrived around 11,000 years ago, by crossing a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska.
自3年前飓风卡特里娜袭击以来，新奥尔良首次面临洪灾威胁，但古斯塔夫飓风并未在此城登陆。
New Orleans faced its first threat of serious flooding since Hurricane Katrina struck three years ago, but Gustav just missed the city.
研究人员对这一发现表示十分振奋，因为这将有助于他们进一步研究几千年前跨过亚洲到达新大陆的早期居民的生活和时代。
Researchers are excited as the find will teach them more about the life and times of early settlers who crossed from Asia to the New World thousands of years ago.
从大陆出发的汽车渡轮常常到2月底前就被预订一空。
The car ferries from the mainland are often fully booked by February.
事实上，塔斯马尼亚岛上也能看到一些有几何图形镌刻的遗址，该岛大约一万年前从该洲大陆分离出来。
Indeed, sites with engravings of geometric shapes are also to be found on the island of Tasmania, which was separated from the mainland of the continent some 10,000 years ago.
研究人员说，大麦是一个意外发现：这种作物生长在欧亚大陆西部，直到大约两千年前才成为中国中部地区的主食。
Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.
研究人员说，大麦是一个意外的发现：这种作物在欧亚大陆西部被引进，直到大约2000年前才成为中国中部地区的主食。
Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a staple food in central China until about 2, 000 years ago, according to the researchers.
最近的证据支持了一个与长期存在的理论对立的观点，该理论认为，在1.1万至1.2万年前，美洲是由从白令海峡沿中大陆无冰走廊向南迁移的人殖民的。
Recent evidence favors a rival to the long-standing theory that the Americas were colonized 11,000-12,000 years ago by people migrating south from Beringia along a midcontinental ice-free corridor.
大约4万6千年前，在一种使用工具、高度智能的捕食者入侵后不久，澳大利亚主要的陆地生物发生了一些巨大的变化。
Something dramatic happened to Australia's dominant land creatures—somewhere around 46,000 years ago, strikingly soon after the invasion of a tool-wielding, highly intelligent predator.
还有一些人说，他们在飞机着陆前闻到烟的味道。
这意味着很多这些看起来不起眼的苔藓“地毯”在人类一个世纪前涉足这块大陆前就已经存在了——而且可能是很久之前。
That means many of these unassuming mossy carpets were there when humans first made it to the continent a century ago-and likely well before.
这意味着很多这些看起来不起眼的苔藓“地毯”在人类一个世纪前涉足这块大陆前就已经存在了——而且可能是很久之前。
That means many of these unassuming mossy carpets were there when humans first made it to the continent a century ago-and likely well before.
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