It took millions of years to prepare it for the arrival of Man, but far less for Man to despoil it.

为了人类的到来，它花费了百万年的时间去准备，但是人类只在短期内就将其掠夺。

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The last twenty years have seen the arrival of the so-called "new man"—the man who is willing to share the housework and child-care.

最近二十年来出现了所谓的“新型男人”——愿意分担家务和照看孩子的男人。

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But in the late nineteenth century, that panoply of possibilities began to fall away with the arrival of a totally new kind of material - celluloid, the first man-made plastic.

但到了十九世纪末，那种盛况随着一种全新材料的兴起而衰落，这就是赛璐珞，第一种人工合成的塑料。

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The Garajonay National Park is an extremely rare example of the humid sub-tropical forest that covered most of Europe before the arrival of man.

UNESCO: CULTURE

Though foxes are of recent introduction in Australia (having been brought for sport by British settlers), many marsupial predators, now extinct, were present before the arrival of man in both his Aboriginal and his European forms, so the ecological system of plants, herbivores and carnivores in the eucalyptus forests would probably not have been that different in the evolutionary past.

ECONOMIST: Ecology raids the techniques of chemistry

Since Josh Bolten took over as chief of staff, the White House has seen the appointment of a Wall Street giant, Hank Paulson, to run the Treasury, the arrival of a slick media man, Tony Snow, to run public relations, and advances in Iraq.

ECONOMIST: A sudden rush of better news, and not entirely fortuitous