Geologists measure time in eons, eras, periods, epochs and ages, with eons being the longest.

地质学家用宙、代、纪、世和期来衡量时间，宙是最长。

The extraordinary fact is that we don't know which is more likely, a future offering us eons of perishing frigidity or one giving us equal expanses of steamy heat.

个明显事实是，我们不知道未来年代是个严寒气候，还是个酷热气候。

These remarkable hills owe their peculiar shapes to the mildly acid waters of the Li River, whose meandering course over eons of time has corroded away their basis, until only the rocky course remained.

这些神奇山地嶙峋奇秀归功于漓江那弱水质，亿万年曲折线路已经侵蚀掉它们主要部分，直到只剩下坚硬河道。

Eons later, the comet crashed into a planet in another solar system.

亿万年后，这颗彗星跟另外个太阳系上行星相撞。

Over the eons of our evolutionary changes, our diet became very varied.

经过亿万年进化变化，我们饮食变得非常多样化。

By the time dinosaurs jumped on the feather bandwagon, they were so last eon!

等到恐龙进化出毛时候，它们其实已经很落后！

If you chose to fly away from the black hole, you might find that eons have passed for the rest of the universe, a freakish one-way time-travel trip to the future where your loved ones are long dead.

如果选择飞离黑洞，你会发觉宇宙已经流逝上万年时间，可以说是个诡异又不可逆抵达未来之旅，而你所爱切也早已人去楼空。

Over the eons, the summit collapsed and created a giant pit in the Earth, a super crater now known as the Yellowstone Caldera.

过很久，峰顶塌陷，在地球上形个巨大坑，个超级火山口，现在被称为黄石火山口。

I sometimes call this " the virtuous cycle of how to keep humanity alive for centuries and eons to come, yay, awesome."

我有时把它称作为为“让人类在未来几个世纪和亿万年中生存良循环，耶，这太棒。”

And under his leadership, the Libyans devised an almost crazy-sounding plan to permanently alter one of their greatest of geographic handicaps that had nerfed Libyan civilization for eons, their complete lack of any rivers.

在他领导下，利比亚人设计个听起来近乎疯狂计划，要永久改变他们最大地理障碍之，这个障碍长久以来直削弱着利比亚文明，他们完全没有任何河流。

Well for me, as a sculptor, the acceptance of the material as a means of conveying the relationship between human-lived biological time and in a way the eons of geological time, is an essential condition of the waiting quality of sculpture.

身为雕塑家，我认为原料材质反映人类寿命生物时间与永恒地质时间之间关系，是雕像能够长存基本条件。

Again, there is only the spacious present.You are in the spacious present now.You were in the spacious present in your yesterday and you still will not have traveled through it in your tomorrow, or in eons of tomorrows.

再说遍，只有广阔现在。你现在就在广阔现在。你昨天就在广阔现 在，而你明天，或者在无数个明天，你仍然不会穿越过广阔现在。

Stone get statued over eons, brought down from the highest mountain peaks to the beds of the rivers, by processes that took millions of years.

石头经过千百万年雕琢，从最高山峰被带到河床，又经历数百万年冲刷。

We think of erosion as something happening slowly over eons, but these ice age floods cataclysmically reshaped the landscape in just a matter of days.

我们认为侵蚀是亿万年来缓慢发生事情，但这些冰河时代洪水在短短几天内灾难地重塑地貌。

Eons ago, comets (and asteroids) may have brought a lot of water to Earth — as well as the ingredients for life.

很久以前，彗星(和小行星)可能给地球带来大量水——以及生命分。

For millions of years, the Gunnison River has been carving this canyon at work across eons of isolation.

几百万年来，甘尼森河静静地流过孤独黑峡谷。

Species have been accidentally hitchhiking their way around the planet for eons, well before humans got involved.

早在人类涉足地球之前，物种就已经在地球上偶然搭便车。

Over the eons, nature has stumbled on many different ways of desquishifying organisms.

亿万年来，大自然偶然发现许多不同生物脱水方法。

Ultimately, the mass of this particle must come from the black hole, so over eons black holes will shrink and radiate away.

无论如何，这个粒子质量定来自于黑洞，所以黑洞会缩小并向四周辐射发散。

The pictures it returned were breathtaking, and revealed a world that has seen a lot of pummeling over the eons.

它传回来照片令人叹为观止——展示个千万年来伤痕累累世界。