万年

But signs of modern culture, such as shell beads for necklaces, the use of pigments and delicate, sophisticated tools like bone harpoons, do not appear until 90,000 years ago.

但是诸如用贝克串成项链，使用颜料和骨制鱼叉之类复杂精巧的工具等标志&现代文明&的行为直到9万年前才出现。

Life lazed through those doldrums for a million millennia.

生命在赤道无缝带慵懒的穿过，已经数以千万年。

Maiming each other has been going on for 2 million years.

残害彼此的行为已经持续了两百万年。

That was a gold meadow beside the valley of Xia Te river, we walked along the river, strong sunshine sprinkled like fleck at the small path through dense pine trees, there were some unknown wild flowers in the meadow, there were some moldered old trees falling down roadside, the bare roots seemed telling the waste of time and history.

沿夏特河谷边金黄色的草甸循溪而上，太阳透过密密的松林，将烈烈的光斑斑驳驳的撒在小径上，空地上零星的开着不知名的野花，时不时能见到早已腐朽的老树横倒在路边，裸露的根像在诉说着那万年的蹉跎与沧桑。

That was a gold meadow beside the valley of Xia Te river, we walked along the river, strong sunshine sprinkled like fleck at the small path through dense pine trees, there were some unknown wild flowers in the meadow, there were some moldered old trees falling down roadside, the bare roots

沿夏特河谷边金黄色的草甸循溪而上，太阳透过密密的松林，将烈烈的光斑斑驳驳的撒在小径上，空地上零星的开着不知名的野花，时不时能见到早已腐朽的老树横倒在路边，裸露的根像在诉说着那万年的蹉跎与沧桑。

That was a *** meadow beside the valley of Xia Te river, we walked along the river, strong sunshine sprinkled like fleck at the small path through dense pine trees, there were some unknown wild flowers in the meadow, there were some moldered old trees falling down roadside, the bare roots

沿夏特河谷边金黄色的草甸循溪而上，太阳透过密密的松林，将烈烈的光斑斑驳驳的撒在小径上，空地上零星的开着不知名的野花，时不时能见到早已腐朽的老树横倒在路边，裸露的根像在诉说着那万年的蹉跎与沧桑。

The authors speculate that the largest known flying bird ever, a 70-kg raptor that lived in South America 6 million years ago, may have molted all its flight feathers at once and lived off its protein reserves while they grew back.

作者猜测，600万年前生长在南美洲的重达70千克的猛禽，亦即已知的最大飞行动物，很可能一次就换掉全部的飞羽，期间依靠储存的蛋白质生活。

She countered by postulating that it was billions of years ago and that mankind lived for millions of years on Earth.

相反，她声称那是在数十亿年以前，并且人类在地球上生活已有数百万年。

Liquefaction is restricted to certain geologic and hydrologic environments, mainly areas where sands and silts were deposited in the last 10,000 years and where ground water is within 30 feet of the surface.

液化被限定在特定的地质和水文环境中，主要发生在沉积少于一万年的沙石和泥沙土层的地区，并且地下水位不低于地表三十英尺。

Researchers believe the reptile lived 60 million years ago and snacked on animals the size of a cow.

研究人员认为，这条蛇距今有6千万年，吞食牛一样体积的动物。

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。