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That is the kind of promise politicians love to make. It assuages the sense of moral panic that has been the handmaiden of prohibition for a century.

政治家们就喜欢做这样的承诺，因为它能够减轻人们精神上的恐慌感，而这种承诺已经以为禁令的形式存在了一百年。

If they were initially thwarted by allegedly indestructible siding made of aluminum, vinyl, or the maintenance-free, portland-cement-cellulose-fiber clapboards known as Hardie planks, they merely have to wait a century before most of it is lying on the ground.

如果它们最初被阻挡在所谓的坚不可摧的墙板外面——这种墙板由铝、乙烯化合物构成，也可能由被称为"高能厚壁板"、无需保养的硅酸盐水泥纤维隔板构成——它们所要做的不过是等上一个世纪，那么大部分的人工材料都会不攻自破了。

However, in the ensuing half a century, this rather haughty point of view has evolved.

不过在接下来的半个世纪中，有个带着相当轻蔑意味的观点兴起。

Beginning -- signifying renewal, as well as change. For I haver forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago.

因为我在你们和全能的上帝面前宣读的，是近一七五年前我们的祖先拟就的同一庄严誓词。

Last week was an unforgettable week - Victoria, South Australia and part of NSW were hit by the worst heatwave in a century and most of our public services were virtually melted down.

今期的《同路人》，报导了这一周发生的几件大事，对我来说，是一个很难忘记的经历。

Hemispherical photography has been used to study forest canopy geometry and understory light environments for approximately half a century.

利用半球面影像技术来探讨林冠结构与林下光环境已有约半世纪。

It is almost a century since the US economist George Taylor came up with the revolutionary "hemline index".

美国经济学家乔治·泰勒提出的具有革命性的"裙长指数"几乎已被应用了一个世纪之久。

And has continued to uphold the vision of its founder, Henry Lee Higginson, for more than a century.

一个多世纪以来，乐队一直坚持其创办者亨利？希金森的思想。

"The Rhine," they said, should receive his ashes, as it had received those of John Huss a century ago.

但德国的许多诸侯虽然自己是罗马教徒，是路德公开的敌人，但却反对这种破坏信誉的举动。

For more than a century, the tale of Jekyll and Hyde has captivated the world imagination.

一个多世纪以来， Jekyll和海德的传说倾倒了世界的想象。

By the time of its fall, most of the prisoners were writers who had written against the corruptions of the government.

到它被攻陷的时候，里面多数的犯人是写了反对政府贪污文章的作家。

The most obvious variation to ovum morphological character was that the color was changed from light green to sepiaceous in embryonic development, and all the ovums were almost hatched after 96h.

在胚胎发育过程中卵的形态特征最明显的变化是颜色从淡绿到深褐色，卵在发育96h后卵基本全部孵化。