Every answer puzzled him, too, by treating of such enormous lapses of time, and of matters which he could not understand-war, Congress, Stony Point.

每个回答都令他困惑，时光飞逝竟然出现如此之多的错讹，还有他不明白的事情——战争，国会，斯托尼伯恩特。

The lapse of time, and her absence, will defeat all suspicion.

时间的流逝， 她的缺席，将消除所有的怀疑。

After a considerable lapse of time our speed redoubled.

过了相当长的一段时间后， 我们的速度加快了一倍。

Pre-machine urban civilizations have likewise retained their essential characteristics through long lapses of time.

经过漫长的时间流逝， 前机器城市文明同样保留了它们的本质特征。

Night came. But I knew nothing about the lapse of time.

夜幕降临了。但我对时间的流逝一无所知。

The mere lapse of time by itself does nothing, either for or against natural selection.

光是时间的流逝本身并没有支持或反对自然选择。

The immense lapses of time each formation represented had known nothing of the dignity of man.

每个编队所代表的巨大时间流逝对人的尊严一无所知。

On the Lapse of Time, as Inferred from the Rate of Deposition and Extent of Denudation.

关于时间的流逝，从沉积率和剥蚀程度推断。

The inner senses have a strong immediacy, a delicious intensity that your outer senses lack.There is no lapse of time in perception, since there is no time.

内在感官有一种强烈的直接性，一股有味儿的劲道，是你们的外在感官所缺乏 的。由于没有时间，所以在感受上也就没有了时间的流逝。

I took no note of the lapse of time—of the change from morning to noon, from noon to evening.

我没有注意到时间的流逝——从早上到中午，从中午到晚上的变化。

He waited yet longer, passing from impatience into a mood which failed to take any account of the lapse of time.

他又等了更长时间， 从不耐烦变成了一种完全不理会时间流逝的情绪。

I hoped that the grief which now seemed intolerable would be softened by the lapse of time, and a merciful forgetfulness would help him to take up once more the burden of life.

我希望随着时间的流逝，现在他觉得无法忍受的悲痛会逐渐减轻，记忆会逐渐淡薄；老天是以慈悲为怀的！他终究会再度挑起生活的担子来的。

With regard to time, our feeling of duration or of the lapse of time is notoriously an unsafe guide as to the time that has elapsed by the clock.

关于时间，众所周知，我们对持续时间或时间流逝的感觉是时钟流逝时间的不安全指南。

Lapse of time is only so far important, and its importance in this respect is great, that it gives a better chance of beneficial variations arising and of their being selected, accumulated, and fixed.

时间的流逝只是到目前为止的重要， 它在这方面的重要性是巨大的，它提供了更好的机会来产生有益的变异， 并使它们有更好的机会被选择、积累和固定。

It is hardly possible for me to recall to the reader who is not a practical geologist, the facts leading the mind feebly to comprehend the lapse of time.

我几乎不可能向不是实际地质学家的读者回忆起使头脑无力地理解时间流逝的事实。

After the lapse of time, under changing conditions of life, if any part comes to be injurious, it will be modified; or if it be not so, the being will become extinct, as myriads have become extinct.

随着时间的流逝， 生活条件的变化， 如果任何部分变得有害， 它就会被修改；否则，生命将灭绝， 就像无数生物已经灭绝一样。

But if the lapse of time becomes an agreeable attendant circumstance, which is a quite possible case and already holds for many individuals, then, as I have said above, it is the short processes which must be kept sufficiently scarce.

但是，如果时间的流逝成为一种令人愉快的伴随情况，这是一种很可能的情况，并且已经适用于许多人，那么，正如我上面所说的，必须保持足够少的是短过程。

Mr. Dimmesdale was a true priest, a true religionist, with the reverential sentiment largely developed, and an order of mind that impelled itself powerfully along the track of a creed, and wore its passage continually deeper with the lapse of time.

丁梅斯代尔先生是一位真正的教士，一位真正的宗教徒，虔诚的情感得到了极大的发展，一种思想秩序有力地推动着自己沿着信条的轨道前进，并随着时间的流逝而不断深入。