The Osage orange glory days are long gone.

桑橙树繁盛的时代已经过去。

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？

Some sites had a lot of buckthorn. Some did not.

一些丛林鼠李属植物繁盛，一些则不然。

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。

In the golden years of Tang, China was a splendid and gorgeous land.

大唐繁盛之时，中国是一个流光溢彩、绚丽多姿的大地。

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。

At sea, though, the most abundant reptiles were the ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs.

但是在海里，最繁盛的行动物属鱼龙和蛇颈龙了。

But in 2010, all the white spruces in the region cranked their cone-making way up, producing

但2010年，该地区的白云杉却异常繁盛。

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。

In any body of water that receives sufficient sunlight, plant-like organisms such as algae and cyanobacteria thrive.

在任何有足够阳光的水体中，类似植物的生物，例如水藻和蓝绿细菌很繁盛。

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——作为一个团队、一个民族和一个美国家庭来行动。

Changing ocean conditions keep this algae blooming year round, causing more and more sea lions to wash up on beaches.

不断变化的海洋环境使这种藻类终年繁盛，导致越来越多的海狮死亡，被冲到海滩上。

We must go quickly. I've heard there's a good port in Asshai...

我们得赶紧走 据亚夏有个繁盛的大港。

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。

Because this breed flourished in the border region, it was christened the " Border Collie" .

由于该犬种繁盛于边境地区， 故被命名为“边境牧羊犬” 。

Though the Cretaceous asteroid cleared the stage, mammals did not really get going until 10m years later, in the Eocene epoch.

尽管白垩纪时期的小行星灭绝了居统治地位的恐龙，但哺乳动物却一直到1000万年后的始新世才真正兴起繁盛起来。

In Guatemala, the ruins of magnificent temples are reminders of a grand civilization that thrived here centuries before Columbus.

在危地马拉，宏伟寺庙的废墟提醒人们，在哥伦布之前的几个世纪，这里曾繁盛过一个伟大的文明。

Australopithecus flourished --I'd never know what flourishing means, I guess they had a good lunch --in Africa, 3.3 million years ago.

南方古猿繁盛起来——我永远不知道繁盛意味着什么，我猜他们在 330 万年前的非洲吃了一顿丰盛的午餐。

With the sun shining and the great bursts of leaves on the trees, I planned to spend the summer studying.

...《尤利西斯》...在炎炎夏日与繁盛的树荫下，我本打算在学习中度过整个夏天。

Ground sloths flourished for millions of years, but around 10,000 years ago, they started disappearing along with the Western Hemisphere's other giant mammals.

大懒兽物种繁盛了几百万年，却在一万年前开始灭绝，一同灭绝的还有西半球其他巨型哺乳动物。