And this was not a couple of generations after the hosts of Xerxes had crossed the Hellespont! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
But other generations will arise, and ever and for ever will continue, to be made happier by our present acts, to be glorified by our valour. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
The Hindu priest is a part of the family life of his flock, between whom and himself the tie has existed for many generations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The variability, however, in the successive generations of mongrels is, perhaps, greater than in hybrids. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
That sort of mutual friction might go on for many generations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
All savage and primitive peoples of to-day, on the contrary, are soaked in tradition--the tradition of thousands of generations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
I have seen generations born, flourish, and expire! 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
For many precious generations the new-lit fires of the human intelligence were to be seriously banked down by this by-product. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
Still, the fame of being spoken of by succeeding generations. 弗格斯·休姆.奇幻岛.
I however learned from it that I was the youngest son of the youngest son for five generations back. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
Thus we have seen how the birth of ideas of former generations has given rise in the present age to children of a larger growth. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
For generations they were blacksmiths and husbandmen. 李贝.西洋科学史.
For three generations the Pasteurs had been tanners in the Jura, and they natur ally adhered to that portion of the population which hailed the Revolution as a deliverance. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Common men cannot shirk world politics and at the same time enjoy private freedom; but it has taken them countless generations to learn this. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
This publication cannot fail to produce the greatest moral effect on the present and future generations. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
To many persons this Egdon was a place which had slipped out of its century generations ago, to intrude as an uncouth object into this. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
Five generations of my race sleep under the aisles of Briarfield Church. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Early men, three or four hundred generations ago, had brains very like our own. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
In successive generations a great development both of bodily and mental qualities might be possible. 柏拉图.理想国.
And the time is not yet passed when we punish the offspring of illicit love, and visit vengeance unto the third and fourth generations. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
Bertha Mason is mad; and she came of a mad family; idiots and maniacs through three generations! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
The earliest recorded reckoning is by moons and by generations of men. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
It ought to be good, he replied, it has been the work of many generations. 简·奥斯汀.傲慢与偏见.
So it is with hybrids, for their offspring in successive generations are eminently liable to vary, as every experimentalist has observed. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Bards have written of the cestus of Venus, that turned the heads of all the world in successive generations. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
If, then, these two varieties be variable, the most divergent of their variations will generally be preserved during the next thousand generations. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
It is polished with the kisses of many generations of worshiping pilgrims. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.