They contended that land animals that began to adapt to aquatic life would soon be neither fowl nor fish, incapable of surviving in either medium.

他们认为，开始适应水生生活的陆地动物很快就会变成既不是鸟也不是鱼，无法在任何一种环境中生存。

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Spend some quality time on your own and reflect on your goals in all areas of your life – short, medium and long term.

集中精力花一段时间，列出你在生活中的不同领域所要达成的目标——短期、中期和长期的。

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Such scenes had once appeared not otherwise than happy, but now, as viewed through the dismal medium of her subsequent life, they classed themselves among her ugliest remembrances.

这种情景也曾经作为幸福而出现过；但如今，透过她随之而来的生活的悲惨的折射，只能归类于她回忆中最不堪入目的部分了。

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The next major change in Winslow Homer's life was a decision to work in a new medium.

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Syndicated talk radio shows, such as those headed by conservative Rush Limbaugh, have given new life to the medium (radio actually reaches more households today than television).

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Those conditions came happily together in Chagall's wonder years of 1911-17: new idioms in art, the persistence of Hasidic life in the shtetl, and an artist who found distance enough to reconfigure that life in the universal medium of paint.

ECONOMIST: Marc Chagall

In August, fact will follow fiction with the arrival of the first real-life self-destructing recording medium.

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