When I returned after five years, which seemed like eternity, there was no trace of you anywhere in Athens.
五年,似乎无穷无尽的五年,终于过去了;我回来了。可是雅典,再也找不到你的踪迹。
How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?
要是你自己,甚至你在纸片上涂画的只言片语,都绝无实际存在的迹象,向未来呼吁又哪有可能?
Like a family tree that you might use to trace back through generations of ancestors, only it's showing a family of genetically related languages instead of people.
就像你可以追溯祖先的家谱一样,它只是在显示与遗传相关的语言,而不是人类。
At the same hearing, he says in one of the best studies used molecular fingerprinting to follow an outbreak of drug-resistant bacteria: "You actually can trace the specific bacteria around and they find that the resistant strains in humans match the resistant strains in the animals."
VOA: standard.2010.07.21
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