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Licorice has been used for centuries as an expectorant to loosen phlegm.

甘草用于化痰已有几个世纪了。

Yet, people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago.

人们只是在两个世纪前一点才开始了解电的使用原理，

I came across a few centuries you, only you to see only the face appeared in the dream.

我穿越了几个世记来找你，只为了见你那只在梦境出现的容颜。

If ever a work of art had a right to feel over exposed, it is Michelangelo's David, naked in the heart of Florence for nearly 5 centuries.

如果说有哪件艺术品给曝光过度，那就是在佛罗伦萨市中心赤身露体了近五个世纪的米开朗基罗的大卫。

Most are not even aware that raw milk has been used throughout the past centuries as a means of combating various illnesses.

大多数人甚至不知道在过去的数百年里，生牛奶一直被人们用来治疗疾病。

With names enduring for centuries it is possible that the sign above the door is as old as the pleasure of drinking itself.

既然酒吧的名字能够流传数百年，那么酒吧门上方挂着的招牌大概也与喝酒本身的乐趣一样，历史悠久，源远流长。

When Euclid originally laid down the axioms of his geometric system 23 centuries ago, one of them seemed less than obvious.

2300年前，当欧几里得（Euclidian）最初提出构成他几何体系的那些公理时，其中一个公理似乎一点也不显眼。

We have watched for centuries as the Light of change grew stronger and stronger, until now the dark ones are in retreat!

我们已经观察地球上的圣光变得越来越强大数个世纪了，直到现在黑暗势力开始败退！

For centuries the dark berries of European black elder (Sambucus nigra L. ) have been traditionally used as a winter remedy.

几个世纪以来，来自于欧洲的黑接骨木果实是被做为冬季的传统治疗方法。

We were surprised to see that it was being built entirely from solid pieces of rock and marble, like buildings of previous centuries.

我们惊讶地发现，这是个完全由结实的岩石和大理石建造的清真寺，象是在几世纪以前的建筑。

There is no doubt, however, that the Mayas must have been familiar with cocoa several centuries earlier.

毫无疑问，玛雅人已在几个世纪前就对可可有所认识了。

What is remarkable about the history of toys is not so much how they changed over the centuries but how much they have remained the same.

在玩具的发展史中，值得记录的并不是他们变了什么而是在这么多世纪之后他们仍保留了某些特性。

People will continue to wrangle over relations between the state and religion in the Arab world, just as they did for centuries in Europe.

正如几个世纪以来的欧洲人一样，人们将会继续就阿拉伯世界中有关政权和宗教之间的关系争论不休。

These dogs have been used for centuries as a do-all farm dog.

这些狗已使用数百年来作为一个做所有农场的狗。

In terms of development, China is at least decades, if not centuries, behind the United States.

就发展程度而言，中国落后美国即使没有数百年，也至少有数十年。

No kind of animal would have survived through the centuries if the weak members had lived. And has always been a law of nature.

没有哪种物种能存活数百年，如果是它们中弱小的成员活下来的话。而这已经成为了自然的法则。

The graph below the images tracks the surface elevation of Devils Lake from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries.

图像下面的图表记录了魔鬼湖在19世纪末到21世纪初的水面高度的变化轨迹。

In the years to come, Yoda would study these techniques, learning the ability in a role he had not played in centuries: an apprentice.

在随后的数年里，尤达学习着这项技能，这一次，他成了一个学生，他已经有好几百年没有当过学徒了。

The artist took a scene that had dominated art for centuries and gave it a completely new perspective.

廷托雷托画了几个世纪以来的占主导艺术的一个场景，完全是一种新的视角。

This act marked the end of four centuries of Ottoman -Turk rule and the beginning of thirty years of British rule.

这个行动标致着四个世纪以来奥斯曼土耳其的统治结束，三十年的英国统治开始。