But at the rate things are going, by the end of this century, we may well have wiped out half of them, especially in tropical forests and coral reefs.

但从物种灭绝的速度来年，在这个世纪末，我们就有可能失去它们中的一半，尤其是在热带雨林和珊瑚礁地区。

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Part of his agenda is to explode the many myths about the closeness of dogs to wolves and the mistakes that this has led to, especially in the training of dogs over the past century or so.

他的计划之一是要探索狗与狼之间相似性的谜题，并弄清这种相似性所产生的误导，尤其是在过去几百年间对狗的驯化方面。

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And this was the fifties, the grayest, bleakest, most blinkered and culturally repressive period in the entire second half of the twentieth century, especially in small-town America.

在整个二十世纪后半期，这是最阴郁，最黯淡，最盲目的时期，也是文化上最压抑的时期。美国小镇上的生活更是如此。

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The Protestant Reformation, and especially the rising energies of Puritanism in the early seventeenth century, are beginning to do a lot to change this state of affairs.

新教宗教改革，尤其是活力不断上升的清教主义,在17世纪早期，为了改变这种状态开始做出许多努力。

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