The television habit distorts the sense of time.

看电视的习惯会歪曲了时间感。

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Timelessness - in the sense of time never ending, never beginning - is a stagnant nothing. It is absolutely uninteresting.

永恒是毫无意义的停滞，它意味着时间永远没有结束，也永远没有开始，绝对令人乏味。

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The passing of time brought a sense of emptiness.

时光的流逝带来了空虚的感觉。

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So,to get a sense of what the regional moisture patterns have been, dryness and wetness over such a long period of time in great detail, I would call it a kind of victory for paleoclimate science."

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And he's parodying both kinds of response in this novel, so in that sense, the novel is very much of its time.

在小说中他模仿了两种方式的应答，从这个意义上说这本小说很有它的时代价值。

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There is no border in the West. So Sal has to reinvent one, and in some sense it's a border of time.

西部里本身没有什么分界线，所以萨尔必须新发明一个，他所分的界限可以说按照时间来的。

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"There are people who will be looking for an opportunity on Tuesday and they'll be given the chance to make sure their time here has been valuable in the sense of getting time on the pitch".

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Dower is equally good at evoking the sense of the time, and examining how Japanese popular culture reflected the hurt and the overwhelming sense of having been grossly misled by their rulers in a surprisingly rich outpouring of contemporary memoirs, books, cartoons, films and other media.

CNN: Books: The Reinventing of Japan

The silence of the desert has its uses for the mystic, but what she experienced as a writer was that it destroys not only the sense of self, but also the foundation of narrative art a sense of time and memory.

ECONOMIST: The transcendental effects of silence