Dec:Of course I have had to prepare to sing the songs from so long ago, that's part of 'the job'.

当然我已经准备要演唱很久以前的歌了，这是我“工作”的一部分。

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That any traces at all remain from so long ago is astounding, and anyway it is not the completeness of the fossil record but its consistency that matters.

这些延伸到过去的印迹令人震撼，虽然这些并不是全部的线索，但是重要在于化石记录着过去到现在的连带关系。

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An old legend relates that long ago God had a great many burdens which he wished to have carried from one place to another on earth, so he asked the animals to lend a hand.

这是一个古老的传说。很久以前，上帝承载着大量的负担，他想把它从一个地方运到另一个地方，因此，他请求动物们助他一臂之力。

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That any traces at all remain from so long ago is astounding, and anyway it is not the completeness of the fossil record but its consistency that matters.

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That leaves only filling the crown, presenting it to the guests and then hearing the same hush fall over the room that I remember from that wintry English Christmas so long ago.

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People from Sweden, the old rival and not so long ago far richer than Norway, stream in to work.

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