But some Botswanans are embarrassed by some of their compatriots living much as they did a thousand years ago.

但有些博茨瓦纳人由于自己的同胞还几乎生活在自己一千年前的生活水平上而感到脸上无光。

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Bees have been around for 110 million years or so, but it was only a couple of thousand years ago that we started to grasp their potential for helping humanity.

蜜蜂存在了一亿一千年左右，而我们开始掌握它们帮助人类的潜能只有几千年。

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Bees have been around for 110 million years or so, but it was only a couple of thousand years ago that we started to grasp their potential for helping humanity Photo: getty.

蜜蜂存在了一亿一千年左右，而我们开始掌握它们帮助人类的潜能只有几千年。

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But ten years later, a similar accusation by another boy led to a criminal trial which began in two thousand five.

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But it was there for over a thousand years, and we now know things to be a little different.

但是，它存在了超过1000年，我们现在知道的事情有点不一样。

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Now I don't know if you can read it because it's a little blurry, but a diet program that's been successful over two thousand years; can't beat that kind of a track record.

我不确定你们能否读懂它,其内容有些模糊,但该减肥方案已有两千年的成功史,这个记录是难以打破的

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True, we have a lot more choices (often aided by technology) about precisely how we do these things in the modern world but we are still built by a hundred thousand years or so of our own species, tens of millions of years of mammalian evolution, into ending up with slightly different brains and slightly different interests to go along with our very different gonads.

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We stared a thousand years at each other, but our histories immediately melded amongst the throng of thousands piling up from the WTC and the Travelers building.

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Increased streaming libraries and falling DVD sales probably account for most of the above data, and I can easily see a time a few years from now where video consumption is ENTIRELY streaming, but all you collectors with a thousand DVD boxes on your shelf always yell at me when I say things like that.

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