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Cuneiform was the first known form of written language, but spoken language is believed to predate writing by tens of thousands of years at least.

楔形文字是已知的最早的书面语言。而一般认为，口头语的产生要比书面语早至少几万年。

Slavery, revolt, oppression, color caste, despoliation, American occupation alternating with American neglect, extreme poverty, political violence, coups, gangs, hurricanes, floods—and now an earthquake that exploits all the weaknesses created by this legacy to kill tens of thousands of people.

黑奴制度、大革命、压迫、肤色等级、外国的疯狂掠夺、美国不时的军事占领和放任自流、极度贫困、政治暴力、军事政变、黑社会集团、台风和洪水，这所有的一切，以及最近发生的大地震，都是由于历史的积怨才导致现在的国家不振，才会使上万的人们失去生命。

On the dockside sit thousands of gleaming new Hyundai cars ready for export by Hyundai-built ships.

上千辆崭新簇亮的现代汽车正等在码头上，将由现代建造的货船被运往世界各地。

Long stretches of its thousands of miles have been covered by sand over the eons.

漫长的年代让它上千英里的距离被沙覆盖了。

If but one of them escap'd, to tell their country people what had happen'd, they would come over again by thousands to revenge the death of their fellows

否则，如果有一个人逃回去，把这儿发生的一切告诉他们的同胞，他们就会有成千上万的人过来报仇

The convention was being held inside a stuffy warehouse filled with boxes of 8-by-10, pamphlet-style, home-brewed manga and swarmed with thousands of anime fetishists, mostly men.

这次展会时在一个拥挤的堆满箱子仓库里进行的，这些箱子里面装满了8乘以10厘米大小的个人编撰的漫画书。仓库里有好几千名动漫狂热者，大部分是男性。

None can match the memory of a Fianna master bard, who can recite a clan generation by generation easily back thousands of years.

没有人有芬尼安诗人大师那样的本事，他们能追述一个部族的世代直到千年之前。

Suddenly a lark flies up and sings gayly followed by thousands of his companions They performed a clear and loud concert high up in the air .

突然，一只百灵鸟腾空而起，后面跟着一大群同伴，他们高兴地唱歌，在半空中组成了一个大型音乐会。

By changing its supplier, the company saved thousands of pounds in import duty.

更换供货商之后，这个公司省下了数千英镑的进口税。

But really, there's lots of people around to help you get started, and it is an incredibly rewarding feeling to have your first package in the Ubuntu archive, installable by thousands of people.

但实际上有很多人能够帮助你着手开始这一工作，而且当你的软件包被首次集成到Ubuntu软件库里并被成千上万的人们安装时，你能从中获得极度的成就感。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。