But several times a year, when time and tide align, manta rays from throughout the Maldives converge here to feed in a spectacular coral-reef ballet.

但是，当时间与潮流相吻合时，这里每年都会上演好几次蝠鲼争食的壮观芭蕾舞剧。

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It is a true saying that time and tide wait for no man.

“时不我与”， 确是至理名言。

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"It is a long time coming and marks a turning of the tide in how we approach these extinctions of the Late Quaternary," she says.

她指出：“这标志着在接下来的很长一段时间内，我们将转向如何处理晚第四纪的灭绝。”

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I'm unable to work or parent effectively for months or even years at a time - then the tide goes out and I feel "normal" for a while, able to function again.

BBC: Bipolar holiday

Time and again U.S. diplomatic cables sent from Arab capitals noted a growing tide of popular resentment toward their rulers.

CNN: Gadhafi's demise and the Arab Spring

Those pictures were her one real memento of him, page after page of watercolors from a world that, even before she opened the book for the first time, was gone forever, leaf green and sky blue and damson, wiped out by a tide of cattle trucks and unmarked graves.

NEWYORKER: The Bell Ringer