You'd think that they would have cleaned up over the last year, since the disintegration of the financial system in recent months is almost exactly what they have been warning us about for decades.

可能你会认为它们在过去的一年中收益丰厚，因为近几个月金融系统的崩溃与他们在十年前对我们的提醒不谋而合。

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Reflecting this on a smaller scale, the 10,000 years or so since the glaciers last went into full-scale retreat have seen periods of relative cooling and warmth lasting from decades to centuries.

大约一万年前，冰河期终于全线撤退，从地球上消失。 从此，地球进入几十年到几个世纪的冬夏轮换时期，春夏秋冬，四季轮转，孜孜不息。 可见，气候本身就一直处在变化之中。

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Since the last few decades, the immigrants have settled in the local customs.

从几十年前开始，这些移民已经习惯了当地的习俗。

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What these elections cannot tell us is whether politics is as it has been for the last three decades since the 80s - where governments can bounce back after mid-term defeats - or whether we'll soon see a return to the politics of the 70s - of one-term governments thrown out of office.

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They've been allowed to atrophy over the last couple of decades since the end of the Cold War.

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The hype has increased in the last few decades since functional neuro-imaging has enabled scientists to observe directly the activity in the brains of conscious subjects exposed to certain stimuli or engaging in different tasks.

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