During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the entire site became covered with a layer of hard grey clay, which minimised further erosion.

在十七世纪和十八世纪，整个遗址被一层坚硬的灰色粘土覆盖，这极大减少了进一步的侵蚀。

She gave birth to Annabel just after her seventeenth birthday.

她刚过完17岁生日就生下了安娜贝尔。

It was the seventeenth century before Newton determined the freezing point of water.

那是17世纪，牛顿确定水的凝固点之前。

Thomas Sawyer, where were you on the seventeenth of June, about the hour of midnight?

托马斯·索亚，6月17日大约半夜时分，你在什么地方？

Agriculture and fishing formed the primary sector of the economy in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century.

农业和渔业是17世纪荷兰经济的主要部分。

This changed in the early part of the seventeenth century when horticulture became accepted as an agricultural sector.

这种情况在17世纪早期发生了变化；在当时，园艺被认为是一个农业部门。

Galileo is the only contemporary personage, the only seventeenth-century figure, even so much as mentioned in Paradise Lost.

伽利略是唯一的当代人物，唯一的17世纪人物，甚至在《失乐园》里也有提及。

The strings are now metallic, but in the sixteenth, seventeenth to eighteenth century, they would have been made out of cat or sheep gut.

弦现在是金属的，但在十六、十七、到十八世纪，它们是用猫肠或羊肠制作的。

Water was the main source of mechanical power, and by the end of the seventeenth century, England alone is thought to have had some 20,000 working mills.

水是机械动力的主要来源，而到了17世纪末，人们认为仅英格兰就有2万个左右的工作磨坊。

I mean, hydroponics isn't really my specialty but from the research I have read, we are talking the nineteenth century, maybe the seventeenth century if you really stretch it.

我是说，水培法并不是我的专长，但是从我读到的研究来看，我们在讲是19世纪，如果你真的延伸一点可能就是17世纪。

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the British parliament enacted a number of laws, called Navigation Acts, governing commerce between Britain and its overseas colonies.

在17和18世纪，英国议会颁布了一系列名为“航海条例”的法律，以管理英国和其海外殖民地之间的贸易。

The largest terrestrial planet, Earth has a diameter only one quarter as great as the diameter of the smallest Jovian planet, Neptune, and its mass is only one seventeenth as great.

最大的类地行星地球的直径仅仅是最小的类木行星海王星的四分之一，而且地球的质量仅仅是其质量的十七分之一。

London's third great function, since the seventeenth century, has been that of national and international bourse: the exchange of stocks and shares, banking, commerce and, increasingly, insurance.

自17世纪以来，伦敦的第三大功能就是充当国内和国际证券交易所，负责股票和股份、银行业、商业以及越来越多的保险的交易。

So that was very tall in the seventeenth century.

这在17世纪算很高了。

And this is a huge problem in the seventeenth century.

这在17世纪是个大问题。

Before the seventeenth century the apostrophe was rare.

17世纪以前，撇号很少被运用。

First, Libya is the seventeenth-largest nation in the world.

首先，利比亚是世界第十七大国家。

Amsterdam, by mid-seventeenth century, by 1650, increases to 150,000 people.

阿姆斯特丹,到十七世纪中叶 也就是1650年,人口增长至十五万

The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve.

第十七是约施比加沙。他和他儿子并弟兄共十二人。

March seventeenth is Saint Patrick's Day, a time to celebrate Irish culture.

3月17日是圣巴特·里克节，这是一个纪念爱尔兰文化的节日。

On April seventeenth, the convention voted to take Virginia out of the Union.

在4月17日，这个大会投票同意，将维吉尼亚州脱离了联邦。

The seventeenth International AIDS Conference took place in Mexico City in August.

第十七届国际艾滋病大会于8月在墨西哥城举行。

The attack began not all that long ago, really only as late as the seventeenth century.

攻击并未太慢开始，早在十七世纪就开始了。

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, people became interested in the classics.

到了第16和17世纪，人们对古典作品感兴趣。

The depressive effect of the eclipse was slight—around a seventeenth of 1%—but it was there.

交食所带来的负面效应是非常微量的，大约徘徊于一个百分点的十七分之一左右，但它的确存在。

As the seventeenth century elapsed, two distinct types of agricultural operations developed there.

随着十七世纪的结束，两种明显的农业劳作在那里形成。

In the UK, too, religion seems to be generating an animosity not seen since the seventeenth century.

在英国也是同样，似乎自从十七世纪之后，信仰就不再产生憎恨和仇视了一般。

The 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens is Monaco's seventeenth participation at the Summer Olympics.

2004年雅典夏季奥运会是摩纳哥第17次参加奥运会。

Nori has been cultivated in sheltered, shallow offshore waters of Japan since the seventeenth century.

“紫菜（nori）”一字指的是紫菜类（紫菜属藻类的食用物种）以及从切丝海藻制成的薄的脆片。 自17世纪以来，紫菜一直在日本近海海域浅大陆架栽植。