Or they may suggest the remarkable brevity of our lifes in the cosmic scale of time.

或者它们可能说明了在宇宙的时间里，我们生命的异常短暂。

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Many scientists provided valuable research and input into the creation of the geologic time scale.

许多科学家为地质时间尺度的建立提供了有价值的研究和投入。

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Such changes are all but invisible over the short time scale of modern observations, and, it is argued, they are usually obscured by innumerable gaps in the imperfect fossil record.

这些变化在现代观测短时间范围内几乎是看不见的，而且，有人认为，这些变化常常被不完善的化石记录中的无数空白所掩盖。

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"For the very first time, a large-scale solar power plant, the largest of its kind in the entire nation, will deliver electricity produced by the sun to the citizens of the Sunshine State.

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Last time we worked through this idea of the scale and how you can build triads on each of the members of the scale.

上节课我们已经讨论过音阶中的这个概念,以及你们怎样才能在音阶的各个音上组建起三和弦。

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Earlier Friday, BP's incoming CEO Bob Dudley, said it is time to scale down the vast operation to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but he stressed his company's commitment to fully restore the environment.

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But the authors of the new study focus on the significantly larger and delayed events in Prague, which they wrote "necessitate reconsideration of the maximum possible size of injection-induced earthquakes, and of the time scale considered diagnostic of induced seismicity".

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Mr Greenspan has expressed anxiety in the past about the risks of cutting taxes on such a large scale at a time of budgetary pressure.

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It's going to be a challenge trying to get on with normal life - but it's 16 days for the Olympics and 12 for the Paralympics which is a short amount of time in the grand scale of things for the greatest sporting event in the world.

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