英汉双语例句-生物医药大词典

For centuries, the Chinese had used kites to test the winds before setting sail in a ship.

中文意思：
之后的几个世纪，中国人在航海中使用风筝来测量风向—设定船帆的方向。

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	For centuries, Kuan Yin has epitomized the great ideal of Mahayana Buddhism in her role as bodhisattva (Chinese p\'u-sa)--literally a being of Bodhi, or enlightenment,who is destined to become a Buddha but has foregone the bliss of Nirvana with a vow to s			数世纪以来，观音以她的菩萨（汉语菩-萨）角色已经成为大乘佛教伟大观念的缩影—“意思是菩提树或启迪的存在”，她是过去佛，只是已经预先知道了天堂的祝福而发愿拯救所有上帝的孩子。
	For centuries, Russians have practiced the art of honey healing - a local take on homeopathy, where the nutrients of wild herbs and flowers rub off on bees, and eventually find their way into the honey that Russians put in their tea.			俄国人使用蜂蜜疗法已有几百年的历史了，这是当地人采用的同种疗法，那个地方的野生药草和野生花卉中的营养对蜜蜂产生影响，最后营养成份进入到蜂蜜中，俄国人将此蜂蜜放入茶中饮用。
	For centuries, chimney-sweeps in Europe were a wandering breed.			欧洲的烟囱清洁工曾经都是漂泊一族，这种状况维持了数百年之久。
	For centuries, every society has tried to destroy prostitutes, but they don't understand that it is a by-product.			很多世纪，每个社会都试图消灭妓女，但他们不理解妓女只是副产品。
	For centuries, people searched for them , because it was believed that thier horns or thier blood would have magical medicinal qualities, and these characteristics of unicorns do come into play in the stories.			许多世纪以来人们寻找着它们，因为据说它们的角和血具有神气的治疗作用，独角兽的这些特点也都在《哈利·波特》书中出现过。
	For centuries, the Chinese had used kites to test the winds before setting sail in a ship.			之后的几个世纪，中国人在航海中使用风筝来测量风向—设定船帆的方向。
	For centuries, the Danube was the greatest route in Europe.			几个世纪以来，多瑙河是欧洲最伟大的路线。
	For centuries, the mystique of the pearl centered on the mystery of its origins.			几个世纪以来，珍珠的形成一直是一个谜。
	For centuries, the natives there regarded cocoa as a gift from the gods.			几个世纪以来，当地的居民把可可看作神的恩赐。
	For centuries, thinkers from Aristotle to Darwin tried to discern the nature and origins of humor, only to have their ideas trail off without a punch line.			多少个世纪以来，从亚里斯多德到达尔文，不知有多少大思想家都希望搞清楚幽默的本质及其起源，可都仅仅停留在对各种想法的验证水平上，最后都没能留下什么精妙的结论。
	For certain applications it may do neither—it's a paradigm, not a panacea.			不过对某些应用程式来说，则可能两者皆非，毕竟这只是一种典範，而不是万灵丹。