1·If represented graphically, the curve for all these changes looks rather like that well-known hockey stick: with little change over millennia and a dramatic upswing over the past decades.
如果用图表进行展示的话，这些变化呈现出来的曲线很像大家熟悉的曲棍球杆：以往数千年都没什么变化，而在过去的几十年内却突飞猛涨。
2·Over millennia ice and water have rounded the stones.
在数千年之间冰和水把石头侵蚀成圆形。
3·Beijing sits in a dry plain where groundwater has accumulated over millennia.
北京坐落于干燥的平原地区，地下水经过了数千年的累积。
4·Humans and dogs share a special relationship, moulded over millennia of reciprocal love and companionship.
数千年来，人类和狗狗都有十分特殊的关系，相互喜爱，相互陪伴。
5·You needed to move on, and throw off the mindset created over millennia of time that stifled original thinking.
你们需要继续前进，扔掉形成了一千多年的抑制原初想法的心态。
6·While solar activity is currently increasing in its standard 11-year cycle, this same cycle has occurred over millennia.
虽然，太阳活动目前在其标准的11年周期中逐渐增加，这种固定的周期持续了几千年。
7·By Darwinist thinking, giraffes got their long necks over millennia because genes for long necks had, very slowly, gained advantage.
据达尔文理论，长颈鹿几千年来的长脖子，是由于长脖子基因在漫长的演变过程中，逐渐占据上风。
8·You cannot really fail, but have needed assistance to shake off the dark attachments that you have gathered over millennia of time.
你不可能真正的失败，但是需要一定的帮助，才可以摆脱数千年的黑暗压制。
9·Over millennia of focusing on life-and-death issues, our nervous systems have evolved to pay attention to some things more than others.
千百年来，在关注生老病死的问题上，我们的神经系统已经演化为能够更加关注某些事情，而非其它事情。
10·So over millennia, we developed a reward system that causes us to seek and change our behavior so we can capture rewarding things to counterbalance the pain.
所以在这一千年中，我们发明了这项奖励制度，它能使我们寻找并且改变我们的行为以至于我们能够获得奖励的东西来平衡那些疼痛。