Voice is our main means of communication, evolved over millennia.

声音是我们沟通的主要方法，经过了数千年的演化。

Plants have evolved over millennia using the strong gravity on Earth.

利用地球上的强大引力，植物已经进化了数千年。

And the third is to preserve the voice over millennia.

第三种是让声音可以保存数千年。

In speech, in different acoustic situations, in the presence of competing sounds and in song, over millennia.

比如说话、不同的听觉情境、竞争声音出现时，以及歌曲，数千年来一直如此。

Relationships between species evolve over millennia, but they can be destroyed in just a matter of years.

物种之间的这种联系用了几千年才建立起来，但是要摧毁它们只需短短的几年。

These traditions, imbibed over millennia, play a crucial role in informing contemporary expression.

这些传承了数千年的传统在当代表达方式中发挥着至关重要的作用。

These include preferences for different marine prey species and the collaborative strategies used to locate, hunt and kill them, potentially honed over millennia.

这些行为包括对不同海洋猎物物种的偏好，以及用于定位、狩猎和杀死猎物的协作策略，这些策略可能经过数千年的磨练。

Some of them accumulated their bones over millennia, while others formed in months or even days.

它们中的一些骨头经过数千年的积累，而另一些则在数月甚至数天内形成。

The hand of God, the Nike swoosh and the swastika: they all demonstrate how we've been manufacturing meaning with visual language over millennia.

神之手，耐克对勾，和 “卐” 字：它们都显示了数千年以来，我们如何使用视觉语言创造意义。

The Earth's crust is rich in calcium, and over millennia these deposits have seeped into rivers and oceans.

地壳富含钙，几千年来这些沉积物已渗入河流和海洋。

Over millennia, that rushing water carved its way through these jagged peaks called the Bighorn Crags that rise up to 10,000 feet.

几千年来，湍急的水流冲破了这些参差不齐的山峰，这些山峰被称为比格霍恩峭壁，高达 10,000 英尺。

Once you throw off those conditions in which coffee has evolved over millennia, it throws off flavor, it throws off the abundance and fertility of the crop.

一旦你摆脱了咖啡发展了几千年的条件，它就会失去味道，失去作物的丰富性和肥力。

In the end, the humble honeybee teaches us a valuable lesson: nature's designs, honed over millennia, have an elegant efficiency that we are only just beginning to comprehend.

最后，不起眼的蜜蜂给我们上了宝贵的一课：大自然的设计经过数千年的磨练，具有我们才刚刚开始理解的优雅效率。

Maybe we can just marvel at the efforts of people over millennia, from the Buddha sitting under the Bodhi tree to the modern philosopher and neuroscientist who has asked themselves the question " Who am I? "

也许我们只需惊叹于人们在过去千年里付出的努力，有坐在菩提树下的释迦牟尼，也有现代的哲学家和神经学家，他们都在问自己“我是谁”这个问题。

So over roughly the last 130 years, we have the potential to break the human communication voice-to-ear train because we are damaging hearing over just a century and a bit, having evolved over millennia, our communication system.

因此，在过去约一百三十年间，我们有可能打破人类的沟通声音到耳朵的传递，因为我们只花了一百多年就损害了听觉，而我们的沟通传递系统花了数千年以上才演化出来。

The fact that any ancient hill figures survive at all in England today is testament to the strength and continuity of local customs and beliefs which, in one case at least, must stretch back over millennia.

任何古老的山丘人物在今天的英格兰仍然存在这一事实证明了当地习俗和信仰的力量和连续性，至少在一个案例中， 这些习俗和信仰必须追溯到几千年前。