澳大利亚岩石艺术的年代一直在不断被修正，而且由于新的发现，人们提出了更早的测定年代。

The age of Australia's rock art is constantly being revised, and earlier datings have been proposed as the result of new discoveries.

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查尔斯·莱尔根据化石记录对第三纪作出了很好的估计，但他的方法不能扩展到更早的地质时期。

Charles Lyell made a good estimate of the Tertiary Period from the fossil record, but his method could not be extended to earlier geological periods.

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也许更早的时候，在欧亚大陆内部的大草原上就出现了独特的游牧文化，这种文化主导了该地区几千年的历史。

Perhaps even earlier, there had emerged on the steppes of Inner Eurasia the distinctive types of pastoralism that were to dominate the region's history for several millennia.

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The way he came up with his scale was actually he borrowed the Romer scale, which came beforehand.

他设计的温标,实际上是借用了更早的罗默温标，罗默是个丹麦人。

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But in all likelihood Hebrews of an older time, the patriarchal period, the second millennium BCE--they probably weren't markedly different from many of their polytheistic neighbors. Archaeology would suggest that.

但很有可能更早的，西元前2000年族长统治时期的希伯来人，他们可能和其他信仰多神论的异邦人,没有什么太大的不同，这一点考古学会帮我们证明。

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So already by the time 2 Peter was written, which was much later than the letters of Paul, Paul's letters have come to be regarded by at least some early Christians as scripture themselves.

所以到写彼得后书时，比它更早出现的保罗书信，已经被一些早期基督教徒,认为是圣典了。

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