In the 1950s, the pioneers of artificial intelligence predicted that, by the end of this century, computers would be conversing with us at work and robots would be performing our housework.
20世纪50年代，人工智能的先驱们预测，到本世纪末，计算机将在工作中与我们对话，机器人将完成我们的家务劳动。
Debussy, a French composer writing at the end of the nineteenth century in the impressionist style, and the piece is called Moonlight.
德彪西是法国作曲家，他在19世纪末以印象派风格写曲，这件作品叫做《月光》
Why did it strike at the end of the 18th century?
为什么它会在18世纪末爆发？
Legend has it that Alfred laid its foundations at the end of the ninth century.
传说阿尔弗雷德在九世纪末奠定了它的基础。
The Portuguese Vasco da Gama's Voyage around southern Africa to India took place at the end of the fifteenth century, and by 1502 the trans-Abrabian caravan route had been cut off by political unrest.
葡萄牙人瓦斯科·达·伽马在15世纪末环绕南非航行至印度，而到1502年的时候跨阿巴拉比的商队路线因政治动乱而被切断。
But at the rate things are going, by the end of this century, we may well have wiped out half of them, especially in tropical forests and coral reefs.
但从物种灭绝的速度来年，在这个世纪末，我们就有可能失去它们中的一半，尤其是在热带雨林和珊瑚礁地区。
The fear is that, at current consumption rates, that underground bunker will be empty within 20 years, leaving the earth almost helium-free by the end of the 21st century.
我们担心的是，按照现在的消耗速度，那个地下储存库将在20年内枯竭，而在21世纪末留给地球的将几乎都是游离氦。
And, with no action at all, the planet could even heat up by 5-7c by the end of this century - and more thereafter.
如果根本不采取行动，到本世纪末，地球甚至可能升温5至7摄氏度，而且以后会升的更高。
Prudential and its rival Aviva, both on the lookout for new markets at the end of the last century, decided on different tacks: Pru went into Asia, and Aviva into continental Europe.
上世纪末，信诚人寿和它的竞争对手中英人寿都在寻找新的市场，但是有不同的方向：信诚瞄准亚洲市场，而中英则进入欧洲大陆。
At the end of the 18th century, the flushable toilet went mainstream.
到了18世纪末，可冲洗的厕所以及成为了主流。
The unusual cross became popular among breeders at the end of the 20th century, and in 2001 the International Cat Association accepted it as a new registered breed.
这种罕见的杂交从20世纪末由于人工饲养而变得常见。 2001年世界猫协会接受它作为一种新的品种。
Leprosy was a significant medicalproblem in Norway and Iceland at the end of the 17th century, leading toextensive research efforts.
17世纪末，麻风病在挪威和冰岛大肆流行，也就促成了对此病的大量研究。
Borax powder was added at the end of the 18th Century to produce a favourable foaming effect.
为了产生较佳的泡沫效果，18世纪末牙粉中又添加了硼砂粉。
What did we know at the end of the 19th century about the structure of the atom?
在19世纪末,关于原子结构我们了解多少呢？
At the British economy's nadir of 1974, the era of the three-day week, equities traded for just 30% of their real value at the end of the 19th century.
在英国经济1974年的低潮期——每周只有3天的工作日——那时的股票仅是十九世纪末股价实值的30%。
The villages have been found at the end of the 19th century, the main residential population consisted of the mari people.
19世纪末，这些村子才被人发现，当地的主要人口由毛利人构成。
At the end of the last century, marvelous spire was added, which makes it soar up slenderly into the German skies.
上世纪末期，它又被加上了完美的塔尖，俏丽地矗立在德国的天空。
He said that the long history of friendly exchanges between the two peoples reached a new level when the first group of Chinese settled down in Ecuador at the end of the 19th century.
他说，中厄两国人民悠久友好交往史以19世纪末首批华人落户厄瓜多尔为标志，达到了一个新的水平。
It was colonized by the Italians at the end of the 19th century, seen as strategic because of its location at the mouth of the Red Sea.
19世纪末该国是意大利殖民地，因为地处红海口而被视为战略要地。
China at the end of the 19th century was deteriorating, but it was beginning to prosper at the end of the 20th century.
19世纪末的中国已经日益腐朽，20世纪末的中国开始渐渐繁荣。
Haute couture was established in Paris at the end of the 19th century.
高级成衣出现在19世纪末的巴黎。
Its final end came in the mid-17th century, at the outset of a bloody civil war, when authorities ordered the walls pulled down.
剧院一直持续到17世纪中叶，随着内战的爆发，官方命令拆除围墙。
The Philippines shares a long history with the United States. The islands became a U.S. colony at the end of the 19th century in the wake of the Spanish American War.
菲律宾和美国有很深的渊源，19世纪末随着美西战争的爆发成为了美国的殖民地。
Thus researchers at M.I.T., who were previously predicting a temperature rise of a little more than 4 degrees by the end of this century, are now predicting a rise of more than 9 degrees.
麻省理工m.i.t .的研究人员，之前预计到本世纪末温度上升4度多一些，而现在这个数字超过9度。
This went out at the end of the 19th century, and so on.
这在19世纪末期后就结束了。
Unfortunately for the residents of Galveston, meteorology was far from an exact science at the end of the 19th century, and they received very little warning about the storm's strength.
十九世纪末期，气象学远未成为精确的科学，这对加尔维斯顿的居民来说很不幸，他们几乎没有得到有关风暴强度的警告。
Starting at the end of the 14th century, no doubt on account of the devastation caused mid-century by the Black Death, there was a general shift towards less expensive techniques.
从十四世纪末开始，毫无疑问，当人们讲到黑死病造成对该世纪中叶丝绸工业的破坏时， 该工业有向更不昂贵的技术转变的一种总倾向。
Starting at the end of the 14th century, no doubt on account of the devastation caused mid-century by the Black Death, there was a general shift towards less expensive techniques.
从十四世纪末开始，毫无疑问，当人们讲到黑死病造成对该世纪中叶丝绸工业的破坏时， 该工业有向更不昂贵的技术转变的一种总倾向。
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