In the much more distant past, other ice ages have occurred.

在更久远的过去，其他冰河时代也曾发生过这种情况。

In the distant past, large herbivores like mastodons dispersed maclura seeds, each the size of an orange in their droppings.

在遥远的过去，像乳齿象这样的大型食草动物播撒着桑橙属植物的种子，在它们的粪便中，每个种子都像橙子那么大。

It was once thought that the fungus that ants cultivate was a single type that they had propagated, essentially unchanged from the distant past.

人们曾经认为，蚂蚁培育的真菌是它们繁殖的一种单一品种，自远古时期以来基本上没有改变。

But in recent years people have set their sights on the more distant past, when Europe's forests were filled with elephants, rhinoceroses and big cats.

但近年来，人们把目光投向了更遥远的过去，那时候欧洲森林里到处都是大象、犀牛以及大型猫科动物。

She had started to delve into her father's distant past.

她开始探究她父亲久已逝去的岁月。

Elves, goblins, and trolls seem to be the timeless creations of the distant past, but gremlins were born in the 20th century.

精灵、小妖精和侏儒似乎是远古时代永恒的产物，但小妖精诞生于20世纪。

That bias now is in the distant past.

现在这种偏见已经成为遥远的过去。

A further confirmation comes from the distant past.

一个更进一步的确认却是来自遥远的过去。

The story seems to take place in some distant past, until a mobile phone rings.

故事好像发生在久远的故去，直到移动电话响起。

In the distant past, climate variations may have shaped the very nature of our species.

在遥远的过去，气候变化塑成了我们这些物种的本质。

Hawks says genetic analysis will provide a much richer picture of life in the distant past.

霍科斯表示，基因分析可以提供远古过去更加丰富的生活画面。

That indicates that human evolution had been slower in the distant past, Harpending explained.

这说明，人类在过去进化的速度比现在慢。

The last to go? Stories, especially about people and events that happened in the distant past.

最后失去的才是故事——尤其是那些关于很久以前的人、事的故事。

Infringements made in the distant past are accepted because no contemporary complains of a loss.

大家都接受往日做成的侵犯，因为现代人不会投诉有损失。

In the beginning, in a far distant past of Earth history, humans and animals used to cohabit very lovingly and peacefully.

开元时期，在地球历史上的遥远过去，人类和动物原本是同居一起，非常友好与和平。

The frontal cortex may therefore be better suited to the task of retrieving memories that were encoded in the distant past.

额叶皮质因此可能更适合于记忆和编码在很久以前发生的事件的记忆。

They think that the oil under the surface of the earth originated in the distant past, and was formed from living things in the sea.

他们认为，处于地表下的油起源于远古，并是由海洋生物形成的。

It is more important to be aware that both surnames and forenames are subject to variations in spelling, and not only in the distant past.

而重要的是，你必需意识到，姓氏和名字更改拼法，这中状况可不会只是出现在遥远的过去喔。

In spite of all we have learned from space flights, the moon is still a riddle from the distant past-and will be for a long time to come.

尽管我们已经从空间飞行中了解了一些，月球仍然是来自遥远过去的一个谜，而且仍将会在未来很长一段时间如此。

This would beat the record (set in the distant past of fiscal 2009) by $150 billion and be equivalent to 11% of U.S. gross domestic product.

一举超出记录（2009财年创下的记录）1千5百亿，相当于美国GDP的11%。

How can scientists compare today's climate to conditions of the distant past, long before humans started happily jotting down records of the weather?

科学家如何把今天的气候与遥远的过去进行比较，也就是早在人类还无法用文字记录天气情况的早期？

The memories of events that took place in the distant past remain intact, whereas those that occurred at intermediate times are lost in a graded manner.

在遥远的过去发生的事件的记忆是保持不变的，而那些发生在中间时间段的就会丢失不同程度的信息。

In the not-too-distant past, software development processes were captured in the form of voluminous text descriptions, if they were captured at all.

在前不久，如果想要获取软件开发过程，基本上是通过大量文字信息描述的形式进行的。

Tropical forests that we think of as intact [could have] suffered major disturbances in the not-too-distant past and are still in the process of growing back.

在不太遥远的过去，我们所认为的完好无损的热带森林经受过重大干扰，并仍然继续成长过程。

It was a significant breakthrough, given that quite a few assembly members have themselves attracted the attention of the police in the not-so-distant past.

鉴于就在不久以前很多议员本身还是警方的关注对象，这个突破意义深远。

Whatever was true of the more distant past (when the data were poor anyway), the texts of modern history do not fall into a pattern of regular, repetitive cycles.

在更久远的过去(至少数据欠缺)，无论什么都是正确的，现代历史的文本并未落入有规律的、可重复周期的模式。