What, then, were the conditions which enabled the blooming of life on Earth?

那么，使地球上生命繁盛的条件是什么呢？

Guge flourished at the geographical crossroads to some of the greatest civilizations of the time.

古格王朝的繁盛得利于其位居通往当时几大文明的交叉路口。

Experts at UNICEF say the digital divide is not fair and needs to change. They stress that children everywhere must have access to the tools that will help them to participate and compete in an ever-growing digital economy.

联合国儿童基金会的些专家表示，数字鸿沟的存在并不公平，需要改变这种情况。他们强调，每个地方的年轻人都必须能够获得些工具，帮助他们参与到日益繁盛的数字经济中，并进行竞争。

The Osage orange glory days are long gone.

桑橙树繁盛的时代已经过去。

One brief spring, musical with the song of robin and mocking-bird, one summer rich in fruit and roses, one autumn of gold and crimson sped by and left their gifts at the feet of an eager, delighted child.

个短暂的春天，知更鸟和嘲鸫的啁啾余音；个花果繁盛的夏天；个金黄色的秋天——时光忽即逝，在个如饥似渴、欣喜异常的幼儿脚，留了自己最后的礼物。

As far back as I can remember, I was enchanted by the natural beauty of that region and the almost tropical exuberance of the plants and animals that grow there.

从记事起，我就被那带的自然美景深深陶醉, 包括该地繁盛成长的接近热带的动植物。

This cycling between sexual and asexual phases is called the alternation of generations, and it helps keep plants flourishing, from Granddaddy Succulent to Great-grandbaby Succulent — and even beyond that.

这种有性和无性之间的循环被称为世代交替，它有助于保持植物的繁盛，从祖孙多肉植物到曾孙多肉植物，甚至更远。

But what you remember most is this tree, huge, with fat arms and mighty families of squirrels in the higher branches.

不过，你记得最清的应该是那棵树，巨大，枝干肥硕，高高的枝桠上栖息着繁盛的松鼠家族。

That’s how we will all succeed and thrive together – as one team, one people, and one American Family.

这就是我们全体将共同成功与繁盛的方式——作为个团队、个民族和个美国家庭来行动。

Maybe the pandemic will persuade even the skeptics how crucial scientific discovery is to human flourishing.

这场全球大流行或许甚至能让怀疑论者相信，科学发现对人类的繁盛有多重要。

Saturn's profusion of satellites also has implications for Jupiter.

土星卫星的繁盛也引发了对木星的思考。

This seeming catastrophe would end up being beneficial in another way, as Earth gained a new companion, which would play a major role in the blossoming of our ecosystem.

随着地球获得了个新伙伴，这个表面上的灾难最终会以另种方式带来好处，它将在我们生态系统的繁盛中发挥重要作用。

Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals.

再看看线虫，它们是所有动物家族当中最为繁盛的。

Within a short time span, three-quarters of the world's species disappeared forever, and the giant dinosaurs, flying pterosaurs, shelled squids, and marine reptiles that had flourished for ages faded into prehistory.

在短短的时间内，地球上四分之三的物种永远消失了，那些曾经繁盛时的巨型恐龙、飞翔的翼龙、有壳的乌贼以及海洋爬行动物，都逐渐退入了史前的迷雾之中。

Wetlands like this are a bustling metropolis of flora and fauna.

这样的湿地是植物和动物繁盛的都市。

Wetter areas being the spots where fungus thrives, where there's maybe more insects.

湿润地区是真菌繁盛的地方，那里或许有更多的昆虫。

And it's true that here we do not find an abundance of life, but the sheer scale of  the volume of the oceans means that a significant proportion of all life on earth is found in  this alien place.

的确， 在这里我们并没有发现生命的繁盛，但海洋的巨大体积意味着地球上相当部分的生命都存在于这个异域之地。

I mean, as one example, he levied a 10% tariff on the herd in McDonald Islands, which is an island chain near Antarctica that has a thriving population of penguins and elephant seals, but a population of zero humans.

我的意思是， 举个例子，他对麦当劳群岛的畜群征收了10%的关税，这个群岛靠近南极洲， 拥有繁盛的企鹅和象海豹种群，但人类人口为零。 因此，出口量并不大。

This year we're taking a look at the  cosmos and all the possible life that could be thriving in myriads of worlds –  hosting radically different animals and beings from the ones on earth.

今年我们将关注宇宙以及可能在无数世界中繁盛的所有生命——这些世界上的生物和生物体与地球上的截然不同。

He made each creature in this sacred teeming to be fruitful and to multiply after its kind, an endless array of mortal images with which He speaks to us of eternal things.

他创造了这神圣繁盛的万物，使每种生物都按其种类繁衍增多，无数短暂的生命形象，借此向我们启示永恒的事物。