In the distant past, large herbivores like mastodons dispersed maclura seeds, each the size of an orange in their droppings.

在遥远的过去，像乳齿象这样的大型食草动物播撒着桑橙属植物的种子，在它们的粪便中，每个种子都像橙子那么大。

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It was once thought that the fungus that ants cultivate was a single type that they had propagated, essentially unchanged from the distant past.

人们曾经认为，蚂蚁培育的真菌是它们繁殖的一种单一品种，自远古时期以来基本上没有改变。

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Elves, goblins, and trolls seem to be the timeless creations of the distant past, but gremlins were born in the 20th century.

精灵、小妖精和侏儒似乎是远古时代永恒的产物，但小妖精诞生于20世纪。

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Mars landers and rovers were designed to look for signs of liquid water that may have flowed on Mars in the distant past.

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If this theory you might say of sort of cataclysmic change is true we cannot rule out the possibility that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at some point in the ancient past in the far distant past that Aristotle knew about.

你们可能认为，如果这个理论,即剧烈变革的理论为真,我们就不能排除,像美国宪法,或相同于美国之其它现存宪法,早在远古。

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Alfred Wegener said the mountains and fossils were evidence that all the land on Earth was united at some time in the distant past.

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Climates were different in the distant past and now these scientists say new ones are emerging.

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Memories of dual or multi-tiered exchange systems are limited, as they are fortunately relics of the distant past.

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The emergence of new material is always a headache for historians, and not only for those delving into the distant past.

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