For the better part of a century, most biologists have been reluctant to use those words, mindful of a principle of evolution that says "evolution cannot run backwards".

在大半个世纪里，大多数生物学家都不愿使用这些词，因为他们牢记着一条进化论的原则，即“进化不能倒退”。

The journey took her the better part of an hour.

旅程花去了她半个多小时。

We had been shipwrecked for the better part of a month.

我们的船只失事已经有半个多月了。

We’ve known we could do this for the better part of 15 years,’ he added.

“我们已经知道，这30年有15年我们能够做得更好，”他补充说。

We've known we could do this for the better part of 15 years, 'he added.

“我们已经知道，这30年有15年我们能够做得更好，”他补充说。

Douglas: Now, we've been in contact for the better part of a fortnight.

道格拉斯：过去的两周来我们一直在进行接触。

These four books suggest that mild panic might be the better part of wisdom.

这四本书暗示着轻微的恐慌也许是明智行为的大部分。

Real power for the first time in the better part of a century is no small bauble.

在大半个世纪，第一次获得真正的权利并不是一间华而不实的事情。

The technology to irradiate food has been around for the better part of a century.

在大半个世纪以来辐照食品的技术变得愈加突出。

I will not drive 80 miles per hour; as discretion is the better part of valor.

我开车不超过时速80哩，因为谨慎要比冒险好。

Strangely, this is how homes have been built in the U.S for the better part of a century.

奇怪的是，美国就是这样建造住宅长达大半个世纪。

A walled fortress has stood on this Moscow site for the better part of a thousand years.

这座有围墙的城堡耸立在一千年来莫斯科最佳位置上。

User : So implement it already, if you’ve been getting requests for the better part of ten years!

用户：这么说来，它已经被施行了。

It's also a subject that we can find in the reading journal that Milton kept for the better part of his life.

它也是弥尔顿阅读笔记中的一个主题，那份阅读笔记是弥尔顿在其人生最美好时光中保存下来的。

He pulled me aside and sat me down in his office where he told me stories and jokes for the better part of half an hour.

他把我拉到一旁并一起到他办公室小坐，在那里我们聊了大半个小时。

When I was growing up, my family spent the better part of July and August at my grandparents' country house in Normandy.

当我再大一点的时候，我们一家就到我祖父母在诺曼底乡下的家里去度过七月和八月中更好的一段时光。

It was created by Manel Torres, a Spanish designer, who has spent the better part of a decade perfecting the process.

该发明是西班牙设计师曼纽尔-托雷斯博士历经近十年艰辛的杰作。

And for the men and women who spent the better part of their professional lives working on Galileo, it is a bittersweet day.

所以对于那些为“伽利略”号耗尽职业生涯的大半心血的人们来说，这真是苦乐参半的一天。

Nobody starts a software project planning to fail, but discretion truly is the better part of valor if things start coming apart.

没有人在软件项目开始时就计划失败，但是谨慎确实比勇猛要重要一些。

My wife and I have five kids, which means that we spent the better part of 20 years with very limited choices in our personal lives.

我的妻子和我有五个孩子。 这意味着我们个人生活的更好的20年里都过着有限选择的日子。

Today, like most days for the better part of the past eight years, he is locked away in a dungeon on Fidel Castro's island paradise.

就如过去的八年中大部分的光阴岁月，今天的比塞特医生仍然被深锁在卡斯楚的“桃花岛”的地牢里。

Even today, people holed up in windowless offices before glowing computer screens may not see their fellows for the better part of each day.

即使在今天，在没有窗户的办公室的在闪烁的计算机屏幕前的人们，可能看不到每一天他们同事的更好的部分。

With a share price stuck at $25 for the better part of a decade, people tend to leave in a much more narrow time frame than in the past.

过去七八年里，微软股价始终徘徊在25美元。 这一现象背后的事实是，与过去相比，员工们几乎都赶在一个时间，趋之若鹜地逃离办公室。

I had spent the better part of the night at the bedside of the worshipful Governor Winthrop, doing what my poor skill might to give him ease.

我在那令人崇敬的温斯洛普总督的床边呆了大半夜，尽拙技之能为他减轻痛苦。

Doing this for a living, on and off, for the better part of a decade, has greatly-perhaps fundamentally-changed how I perceive the world around me.

这一次，我是为了生命撰文，这些逝去的生命在过去十年的大部分时间里，曾或多或少的使我感知周围世界的方式发生了极大——或许是根本性——的改变。

At risk is what Mr Gates has called "the operational sanctuary our navy has enjoyed in the western Pacific for the better part of six decades".

盖茨先生称“过去六十年的大部分时间内美国海军在西太平洋地区享有的活动庇护权”受到了威胁。

The atmosphere was dull at best and I actually inhabited the room for the better part of the semester without incident until two weeks before finals.

只是气氛有点沉闷，实际上我在那住了大半个学期都没出什么事情，只是在期末考试前两周的时候出了点麻烦。