Now, we're accustomed to thinking about emotions in this way, in simple, sort of, brief periods of time.

Except for a few brief periods in recent years, General Electric has had the highest market capitalization of any company in the world.

除了近几年中的几个短暂时间段外，通用电器一直是世界上市场资本总额最高的公司。

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The observation that is useful in this instance is; locks are normally held for very brief periods of time.

在这个例子中，如果注意到下面的事实会很有帮助：锁通常只会被占有很短的一段时间。

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There are some occasions when the gun is useful at the longer ranges for relatively brief periods.

偶尔，时机合适，机枪也能够发挥在较大距离中充分发挥作用。

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sedentary time is best mitigatedby lots of frequent movement, even if it's only done for brief periods of time.

久坐最好的调节方式是长期的运动，即使每次的运动时间很短也很有效。

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Keep diapered children in the water for only brief periods and keep sick people out of the water altogether.

不让还戴尿布的孩子长时间在水中逗留，生病的人都不要下水。

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It loops until shut down, periodically showing and hiding itself for brief periods.

它循环运行，直到被关闭，它周期性地短暂显示和隐藏自己。

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the extremely intense activity must be intermingled with brief periods of recovery.

这种强度极大的运动中间，必须插入短暂的恢复时间。

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Characterized by brief periods of violent wind or rain.

以短暂的大风或者大雨为特点。

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Copper has only traded above the$ 8,000 a tonne level during phases of strong economic activity, including the first half of 2008 and brief periods in 2006 and 2007.

以往铜价处于每吨8000美元以上时，都是经济活动强劲的时期，包括2008年上半年，以及2006年和2007年中的短暂时期。

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On Easter Island, their impact may have been catastrophic: 1multiplying to plague proportions they would have devoured the wild fruits, the seabirds, even the nuts of the giant palms, so that the trees may have stopped reproducing long before the last one was felled.

在复活节岛上，它们的影响可能是灾难性的：老鼠大量繁殖成灾，它们会吃光野生果实、海鸟，甚至棕榈树坚果，所以可能早在最后一棵树被砍倒之前，树木已经不再生长了。

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They were carved sometime around the year 1500 by the island's earliest inhabitants, and it has been said that the massive wood sleds needed to transport them from one place to another are a big part of what led to the almost total deforestation of Easter Island.

它们是由岛屿最早的居民在1500年左右雕刻的。据说，需要使用大量的木质雪橇把它们从一个地方运输到另一个地方，这也是导致复活节岛树木几乎全部被砍伐的很大一部分原因。

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One of the most iconic series of monuments in the Pacific islands is the Moai, a group of huge statues of exaggerated human figures that are found only on the small, isolated island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island.

太平洋岛屿上最具标志性的遗迹是摩艾石像，一批用巨石雕成的夸张人物造型，只发现于小而孤立的拉帕努伊岛或复活节岛。

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The top contenders that lost out are the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, the Stonehenge in Britain, Angkor Vat in Cambodia, the statues on Easter Island and the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

希腊的雅典卫城、英国的巨石阵、柬埔寨的吴哥窟、复活节岛巨人像和巴黎的埃菲尔铁塔等几大热门侯选古迹未能入选。

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Located some 2000 miles west of the Chilean Coast, Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, is a tiny island that has become famous for its remarkable isolation in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean.

复活节岛，又称拉帕努伊岛，是一座位于智利海岸以西2000英里以外的袖珍小岛。在广袤无垠的太平洋中，它凭借作为一座与世隔绝的袖珍小岛而著称。

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Rich volcanic soils nourished a forest of giant palms that was home to many unique species, including Easter Island versions of herons, parrots, rails and owls. Today, they are all gone.

肥沃的火山灰滋养了一大片棕榈树林，那也曾是许多珍稀物种的栖息地，包括生长在复活节岛上的苍鹭、鹦鹉、秧鸡和猫头鹰，而如今他们都消失了。

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The Mysterious Statues of Easter Island& A Most Extraordinary Legacy of the Past It is endowed with those characteristics such as particularity, diversity, rareness and culture.

复活节岛的神秘石像&一份独特的历史遗产红色文化遗产资源具有独特性、多样性、稀缺性、文化性等特点。

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Writing on Easter island, called rongo-rongo writing, is also undeciphered, and is uncannily similar to the Mohenjodaro script.

复活节岛上的手稿就叫做荣戈荣戈经文，也是未被破译，与摩亨佐达罗的手稿惊人地相似。

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A drug originating on Easter Island, the mysterious South Pacific home of a lost statue-building people, may become the first substance to slow down human ageing, new research indicates.

最新研究表明，一种来源于位于南太平洋已经消失的那个雕刻石像民族的神秘家园&复活节岛上的药物，可能成为第一种延缓人类衰老的物质。

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Just 20 kilometers long and 11 kilometers wide, Easter Island rises like a fortress from the waves, surrounded by thousands of kilometers of ocean in every direction.

复活节岛只有20公里长，11公里宽，它像一座堡垒从海面耸起，四周是一望无际的大海。

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Perhaps the fate of Easter Island was not sealed by the human who felled that last tree, but by the rat that ate the last palm nut.

也许，复活节岛的衰败并非是由于岛民砍光了所有的树，而是因为老鼠吃光所有的棕榈树坚果。

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