Perhaps willfully, it may be easier to think about such lengthy timescales than about the more immediate future.

有意思的是推测一万年后的事物往往比推测明天要发生什么容易得多。

On a geological timescale, life appeared very quickly.

在地质时间尺度上，生命出现得非常快。

It gives you a kind of timescale to follow through.

它给了你一种完成工作的时序表。

But songs can reveal how two populations interact on a much faster timescale.

但歌声能揭示两个种群在更短时间内如何进行互动。

Let me give you a sense of the timescale at work here.

让我来对所涉及的 时间标度做一下说明。

It swings wildly, increasing and decreasing its rate by huge amounts on very short timescales.

它剧烈地波动，在极短的时间尺度上大幅度地增加或减少它的速率。

It shows you connectivity potentially on yearly timescales, which is what genetics information doesn't.

“这展示了每年潜在的联系时间表，这是基因信息无法做到的。”

Two years is the timescale he set himself to, in his words, 'put France back on its feet'.

用他的话来说，他给自己设定的期限是两年，要在两年内“将法国步”。

But the timescale is alarmingly variable. One senior government figure thinks this and other public-sector reforms will take “between five and 15 years” to bear fruit nationally.

但是时间跨度之多变令人警觉。一位高级官员认为，这项以及其他的公共领域改革将需要“五到十五年”来使全国受益。

I remember the day that because that was made possible, in our minds everything else was possible as well on the same or shorter timescale.

因为登月成功了，我们就认为，在同样或更短的时间里也能做成其他一切事情。

All of these applications of base editing have taken place in less than the past three years: on the historical timescale of science, the blink of an eye.

在科学的历史时间尺度上，仅仅是转眼间的功夫。

We no longer have to wait for Mother Nature's sensory gifts on her timescales, but instead, like any good parent, she's given us the tools that we need to go out and define our own trajectory.

我们必等待大自然母亲 按照她自己的时间尺度和节奏来赐予我们感官的礼物。相反，就像任何称职的家长， 她已经给了我们需要的工具，让我们能够走出来 定义自己的人生轨迹。

But I began to see that it is that very rootedness that makes them fascinating, the ingenious ways in which they adapt and respond to threats and opportunities on timescales that make our heads hurt to imagine.

但我开始意识到，正是这种扎根的本性让它们如此迷人，它们适应和应对威胁和机遇时的独特方式让我们难以想象。