The family ruled for several generations and evidently loved the trappings of power.

那个家族统治了好几代，他们显然喜爱权力带来的虚饰。

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A problem with this dating method is that an object could have been carried around, used for several generations before it was discarded.

这种年代测定法的一个问题是，有可能某一件东西从一个地方被带到了另外的地方，且被好几代人用了之后才被埋入土中。

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After several generations of population growth, people packed the landscape in densities so high that communal pueblos may have been a necessary outcome.

经过几代人的人口增长，人们以如此高的密度挤满了这个地区，以至于公共聚居地的出现可能是一个必要的结果。

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"In fact,there has not been a nominee in several generations who has brought the depth of judicial experience to this job that she offers."

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But since life expectancy in the Ancient World was much less than ours, you didn't have usually several generations in these households, because older people just died.

但是古代人的寿命没我们长，一般不会出现几代同堂，因为年纪大了去世了。

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In the Mesopotamian account, the gods themselves are created ; And they're not even created first, actually; The first generation of beings creates these odd demons and monsters, And gods only are created after several generations Marduk And the god of creation, Marduk, Is actually kind of a latecomer in the picture.

在美索不达米亚的描述中，众神本身也是被创造的,而事实上，他们还不是最先被创造出来的;,是最早的存在创造了那些恶魔和怪兽，而众神是在好几代之后才被创造的,而有创造能力的神是，他在创世的图景中是姗姗来迟的。

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Vertigo's music would not have exerted such extraordinary power over several generations were the performance weak.

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Typically, an American woman today will have two children versus four several generations ago.

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The pervading old-boy's network rewards longevity, and political relationships sometimes go back several generations.

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