将人类放在地球活动的中心位置这一做法很典范地代表了地质学家看待人类观念的改变——不再是地球长长的时间轴上微小的一点。

Putting humans at the centre of our planet's activity represents a paradigm shift in the way geologists usually think of our species – as a mere blip on the long timescale of Earth.

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过去很长时间里，人类已形成了控制洪水的观念，特别是要依靠人工工程来控制洪水。

In the past very long time, the humanity has formed the idea of controlling flood, specially depend upon the artificial project to control flood.

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我们把客观事物的变化，各种现象的产生与消亡等统称为“事件”，人类最初的时间观念都来自于“事件”。

People name change of objective things and appearance and disappearance of any phenomenon "event", from which people get the intuitive sense of time.

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