THE oldest company in the world is Kongo Gumi, a construction firm based in Osaka. It started building Buddhist shrines in 578AD, and was still run by a man surnamed Kongo 40 generations later.

世界上历史最悠久的企业金刚组（Kongo Gumi），是位于大阪的一家建筑公司，它从公元578年开始建造佛教庙宇，传了40代以后，现在仍然由一位金刚家族的男士打理。

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Who could have foreseen in 1945 that two generations later Western Europe would be united, peaceful and prosperous, that old enemies would be reconciled?

在1945年，有谁能预见到再过两代人，西欧将是合为一体、一片升平和欣欣向荣，而宿敌能言归于好？

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Two generations later, I was born in Vancouver.

两代以后，我在温哥华出生了。

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But the rewrites also removed some parts from the early books that might have seemed racially offensive to later generations.

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It's this drive to constant self-definition that becomes the characteristic feature of Milton's work for later generations.

就是这种对自我界定的欲望,变成了弥尔顿留给后人的,作品的典型特征。

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His methods influenced later generations of artists.

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Two generations later, her son, John, was denied a chance at an ROTC scholarship because he is colorblind too.

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Four generations later the boy was born, in a land that no longer existed, in a village with no name.

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Five generations later, the Grant family still runs Glenfiddich, and production methods for the single malt scotch have not changed either.

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