It will be a long time before King Coal and Queen Oil are dethroned completely, but their reigns as absolute monarchs of all they survey are coming slowly to an end.

但是要想让“煤炭国王”和“石油皇后”退位还需要很长时间，但是“他们”的绝对统治地位正日渐势微。

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A remarkable consequence of relativity is the way it has revolutionized our ideas of time and space; it has put an end to Aristotle's and Newton's idea of absolute time.

相对论的一个显著成果在于它改变了我们的时空观，结束了亚里士多德和牛顿所持的绝对时间的观念。

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This makes the international decline look slightly eerie: blackbirds drop from the sky, plagues slacken and end, and there seems no absolute reason that societies leap from one state to another over time.

NEWYORKER: The Caging of America