Like older humans, elderly mice often don't remember where they were when something happened.

和年长的人类一样，衰老的老鼠经常不记得某件事发生时自己所处的位置。

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English is a chronological language. We just love to know when something happened, and this is indicated by the range and depth of our verb tenses.

英语是一种以时间顺序为主的语言，我们只想知道什么时候发生了什么事情，而这一点主要是靠我们动词的不同时态来表达的。

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When prehistoric man arrived in new parts of the world, something strange happened to the large animals: they suddenly became extinct.

当史前人类来到一处新地方时，一些奇怪的事情发生在大型动物身上，那就是它们突然灭绝了。

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When Hank sang a sad song, those who listened knew it was about something that had happened to him.

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And this is exactly what happened with Marsden who discovered that when he shot the alpha particles at the gold foil he detected something on his detector that click, click, click went a little bit faster.

而对于Marsden来说,就是这样，他发现当他用alpha粒子,轰击金箔的时候，探测器哒哒哒得更快了,他发现一分钟。

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The people at Goldman Sachs lost a packet when something happened that their computers told them should occur only once every 100 millennia.

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Predictably, nothing happened until early March, when something very big happened.

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"I heard Martin Corderoy scream, it was the sort of scream you make when something bad has happened, " he said.

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