In other words, a long-ago ancestor species that spent its time in the trees moved to the ground and began walking upright.

换句话说，我们的祖先很久以前是活动在树上的，后来下到地面，开始直立行走。

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"Auld Lang Syne," by the eighteenth century Scottish poet Robert Burns, is a song about friends and remembering times long ago.

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Well, you know, it goes back to the beginning of the formation of the personal computer industry, which--that sounds like a long time ago.

嗯，你知道，这要追溯到,个人电脑产业的形成初期，听起来相当久远了。

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and I think that because... from a long time ago there were, it was just a very diverse city.

而且很久前，这里就是个多元性的城市。

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