Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readers have little use for the richly upholstered Vicwardian prose in which he specialized.

在他去世之前，新闻业的品味早已改变很长时间了，而且他所擅长的措词华丽的维多利亚爱德华时期的散文风格对后现代的读者没有用处。

You had been idle at your school, worse than idle at your university.

你在中学就懒散度日，更甚于在大学时期。

All the while, Foucault was progressing up the French academic ladder.

也在同一时期，福柯在法学术界节节高升。

Ice ages will be alternated with extremely hot periods.

冰河期将与极热时期交替。

When you go inside, you'll find that in the state rooms there are life-like moving wax models dressed in costumes of different periods in the past, which even carry on conversations together.

当大家进去的时候，你们会发现在事厅里有栩栩如生的可移动的蜡像，穿着过去不同时期的衣服，甚至是在互相对话。

We've had a bit of a rocky patch.

有过一段风雨飘摇的时期。

In the meantime, the metric system was gaining popularity during the French Revolution.

在此同时，公制单位则于法大革命时期开始流行。

Quantum biology is still in its infancy.

生物学还处在婴儿时期。

It often buries leftovers as emergency rations for leaner times.

它经常把吃剩的食物埋起来用作匮乏时期的应急口粮。

In early childhood, pancreatic insufficiency is the most prominent effect of CF.

在幼儿时期，CF最主要的影响是造成胰腺功能不全。

And for a time, there were no criminal charges.

而一段时期以来, 没有对于他的刑事指控。

He's going through a tough spell now.

他现在正在经历一段艰难的时期。

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

非常时期需要 非常办法.

The State of Qin defeated other powers during the Warring States Period 2,200 years ago and established the Qin Dynasty.

2200年前的战时期，秦打败了其他家，建立了秦朝。

People will say this is by a certain artist and we can look at the materials that he used, and decided if those materials were available during that artist's lifetime.

如果有人认为某个画作是某个艺术家画的，我们呢可以分析其颜料，然后判断该颜料是不是作者时期的。

It features historic selfies, reproduction of self portraits by renaissance masters.

它的特色是那些具有历史意义的自拍照，再现了文艺复兴时期的大师们的自画像。

At their height, approximately 1 in 3 American workers were in a labor union.

在它们巅峰时期，大约1/3的美工人是工会成员。

During the Little Ice Age, the cold weather caused the ice to grow and advance.

在小冰河时期，寒冷的天气导致冰不断生长。

Once we miss the golden time, we will not be compensated in the future.

我们一旦失去了这一时期，我们将无法偿还。

In the second century Galen pinned it on a dryness of the tongue.

二世纪时，盖伦（古罗马时期最著名最有影响的医学大师）将口吃归咎于舌头干燥。