Cattle and pigs came next as nomads settled down on farms, and modern chickens followed a few thousand years later; turkeys took much longer to tame, finally giving in to the Aztecs around the 1300s.

等游牧民族定居下来开垦土地后，他们养起了牛和猪，几千年以后开始养鸡。 因为火鸡驯养时间太长，所以十四世纪左右就把这件事情（养殖火鸡）交给阿兹特克人了。

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It's estimated that dumped computers take ten thousand years to break down, leaving a cocktail of toxic materials including lead and mercury.

这些废弃电脑预计要超过一万年才能分解，留下许多有毒物质，包括铅和汞。

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In only a few thousand years the nebula will dissipate into space. The central star will then gradually cool down, eventually becoming a White Dwarf, the final stage of evolution for nearly all stars.

在仅仅的几千年里，星云将消散在太空中，中心的恒星将完全冷却下来，最后变成白矮星，这是几乎所有恒星演化的最后阶段。

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Well, the way we can reason things out from the evidence we have suggests that Greek-speaking peoples came down into the area around the Aegean Sea, perhaps around 2000 B.C., about a thousand years later than the emergence of the Minoan civilization at Crete.

根据现在我们掌握的资料推断,讲希腊语的人群主要集中在爱琴海附近,大概在公元前两千年左右,在米诺斯文明出现在克里特岛大概一千年后

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It is easy to lose your footing, and tumble back down, bouncing off the steps like the sacrificial victims of a thousand years ago.

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Two-thirds of the price was subsidized by the city, which estimates that it has replaced almost a hundred thousand coal stoves since the project began, five years ago, cutting down on sulfur and dust emissions.

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