The sea may rise or the land may fall; either way the sand dunes will be gone in a short time.

海平面可能会升高，或者陆地可能会下降；不论发生哪种情况，沙丘都将很快消失。

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Hasn't the time gone quickly?

时光过得真快，是不是？

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After all, even the most action-filled exciting painting can represent only one moment in time; and any illusion of movement is gone after the first glance.

毕竟，即使是最激动人心的动作场面，也只能代表一个瞬间；在第一眼之后，任何运动的错觉都消失了。

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At the time,her husband had said: "When I am gone,lay my remains in some quiet place like this."

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It takes so long that by the time the spaceship comes back, 100 years will have gone by.

去了很久，以至于宇宙飞船回来的时候，100年都已经过去了。

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I've gone through a series of such arguments, and the one that we ended with last time was the suggestion that we need to believe in the existence of a soul in order to explain the fact that we've got free will.

我已经讲过一系列这样的论证,上次课结束时我提到的一个论证认为,我们只有相信灵魂存在,才能解释我们拥有自由意志这一事实

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Instead, the armed police who brought the diamonds to the airport were gone by the time the robbers drove up to the plane.

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Hefner pitched his best game of the season for the New York Mets and was gone by the time Andre Ethier hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning that sent the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 3-2 win Thursday.

WSJ: Hefner pitches well, Mets beaten late by Dodgers

According to the sheriff's department, the fight ended after the men were separated, and Brown and his camp were gone by the time deputies arrived.

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