For anyone who feels bound up with this world's fate, the clash of civilizations has something agonizing about it.
对任何一个感到与世界的命运紧密相连的人，文明的冲突有种让他苦恼的东西。
But research is uncovering how these extinction events dictated the fate of life on this planet-for instance, determining which animals first crawled onto land and which ruled the oceans.
但是，科学研究正在揭示这几次大灭绝如何改变地球生物的命运——比如，决定了首先出现在陆地的动物和统治海洋的生物。
This does not bode well for the fate of any set of budget proposals based on the commission's work that may eventually land on the floor of the House or the Senate.
这对于任何建基于委员会工作上的预算草案来说不是个好兆头，它们也许最终被众议员或参议院束之高阁。
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