Only Chinese characters have gone through several thousand years of evolution and remain until now.

只有汉字历经数千年的演变而延续至今。

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When Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species" in 1859 it was like an acid eating slowly through several thousand years of religious thought.

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He'd just walked away from a business failure in Florida, running through "several hundred thousand dollars" in a blighted attempt to build cell phone towers.

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So you have several thousand employees communicating through social platforms.

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