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

不过很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。

On a geological timescale, life appeared very quickly.

在地质时间尺度上，生命出现得非常快。

These familiar timescales mark the passing of our lives.

这些我们熟悉的时间尺度标志了我们的过去。

It gives you a kind of timescale to follow through.

它给了你一种完成工作的时序表。

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。

With AGI, something like this could happen again, but on a shorter timescale.

AGI的出现使得类似的事情可能会再次发生，但变化所需的时间会更短。

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。

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，这是基因信法做到的。”

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。

Life below freezing also operates on a different timescale, which puts our human lifespans into perspective.

冰层以下的生命也在不同的时间尺度上运行，这让我们从不同的角度看待人类的寿命。

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“将法国站稳脚步”。

That's a long time for humanity but negligible in relation to planetary and galactic  timescales.

这对人类来说是一段很长的时间，但与行星和银河系的时间尺度相比可以忽略不计。

This sounds slow, but on geological timescales it is a titanic struggle over who gets to stay on the surface.

这听起来很慢，但在地质时间尺度上，这是场巨大的斗争，决定着谁能留在地表上。

So watching the timescale of all this will be very interesting if Boris Johnson presses ahead.

因此，如果鲍里斯·约翰逊继续推进，观察这一切的时间表将非常有趣。

And the timescale of about 20 years is realistic.

大约 20 年的时间跨度是现实的。

It needs to promise things on the time on a realistic timescale.

它需要在现实的时间尺度上按时承诺事情。

Ice sheets are immense, powerful machines that operate on long timescales.

冰原是巨大而强大的机器， 可以长时间运行。

Electrons, for instance, orbit their parent atoms fast enough that they change position on attosecond timescales.

例如，电子绕其母原子运行的速度足够快，以至于它们可以在阿秒时间尺度上改变位置。

And it tends to cycle from active to inactive phases with a timescale of about 50 years.

并且它倾向于从活跃阶段循到非活跃阶段，时间跨度约为 50 年。

And the timescales, the scrutiny and the objectives of big public-infrastructure projects differ from those of corporate initiatives.

大型公共基础设施项目的时间表、审查和目标与企业计划不同。