Time disruption did occur, but the airplanes did not fully disappear into another epoch of time.

时间破碎确实发生了，但飞机并没有真正消失进入到另一个时代。

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Whereas an instant specifies an exact moment in time relative to the epoch, a partial time snippet refers to a moment in time that could "slide" around such that it could apply to multiple instants.

瞬间性指定了与epoch相对的时间上的一个精确时刻，与此相反，局部时间片段指的是在时间上可以来回“移动”的一个时刻，这样它便可以应用于多个实例。

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The Instant represents an exact moment in time, expressed in milliseconds from the epoch.

Instant 表示时间上的某个精确的时刻，使用从 epoch 开始计算的毫秒表示。

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The saying goes that a week is a long time in politics, today has shown that an hour can seem like an epoch.

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One argument against the idea that a new human-dominated epoch has recently begun is that humans have been changing the planet for a long time already, indeed practically since the start of the Holocene.

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One of the manuscripts is a historical review of primarily Iran, written in 1414 by Khafiz-I Abru, a famous historian from the epoch of Tamerlan, letting us travel through the manuscript as he, himself did in his time.

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