No Merry Andrew, to stir up the multitude with jests, perhaps hundreds of years old, but still effective, by their appeals to the very broadest sources of mirthful sympathy.

“也没有逗得大家哄堂大笑的”快乐的安德鲁“说那些由于笑料选出、虽已流传上百年、仍让人百听不厌的笑话。”

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Another more intriguing possibility is that the genetic information needed to make toes somehow survived for tens or perhaps hundreds of millions of years in the lizards and was reactivated.

另一种更有趣的可能性是，使蜥蜴的脚趾成形的基因信息，以某种方式存活了几千万年甚至几亿年，而且被重新激活了。

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What we do know is that most of it has remained in this form, mostly unchanged, for tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of years.

我们仅仅知道，它仍然保持这种形式，数十年，数百年也许数千年来几未有大的变化。

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The team found that it took at least hundreds of thousands of years and, perhaps, 4m years for human and chimpanzee ancestors to stop interbreeding after they began to be differentiated.

ECONOMIST: Humans could have interbred with chimpanzees

The first, and perhaps finest accomplishment, is having persuaded your parents to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to extend your childhood for four years.

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