The Osage orange glory days are long gone.

桑橙树繁盛时代已经过去。

What, then, were the conditions which enabled the blooming of life on Earth?

那么，使地球上生命繁盛条件是什么呢？

Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals.

再看看线虫，它们是所有动物家族当中最为繁盛。

At sea, though, the most abundant reptiles were the ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs.

但是在海里，最繁盛爬行动物要属鱼龙和蛇颈龙了。

That’s how we will all succeed and thrive together – as one team, one people, and one American Family.

这就是我们全体将共同成功与繁盛方式——作为一个团队、一个民族和一个美国家庭来行动。

Wetter areas being the spots where fungus thrives, where there's maybe more insects.

湿润地区是真菌繁盛地方，那里或许有更多昆虫。

We must go quickly. I've heard there's a good port in Asshai...

我们得赶紧走 据说亚夏有个繁盛大港。

Guge flourished at the geographical crossroads to some of the greatest civilizations of the time.

古格王朝繁盛得利于其位居通往当时几大文明交叉路口。

But what you remember most is this tree, huge, with fat arms and mighty families of squirrels in the higher branches.

不过，你记得最清是那棵树，巨大，枝干肥硕，高高枝桠上栖息着繁盛松鼠家族。

It is stable, and that stability has been useful for the  life that eventually flourished here .

它是稳定，这种稳定对于最终在这里繁盛生命是有用。

Maybe the pandemic will persuade even the skeptics how crucial scientific discovery is to human flourishing.

这场全球大流行或许甚至能让怀疑论者相信，科学发现对人类繁盛有多重要。

So humanity  has arrived at a very convenient spot in time, maybe the earliest reasonably possible  for life to thrive.

因此，人类已经到达了一个非常方便时间点，也许是生命繁盛最早合理时间点。

With the sun shining and the great bursts of leaves on the trees, I planned to spend the summer studying.

...《尤利西斯》...在炎炎夏日与繁盛树荫下，我本打算在学习中度过整个夏天。

In Guatemala, the ruins of magnificent temples are reminders of a grand civilization that thrived here centuries before Columbus.

在危地马拉，宏伟寺庙废墟提醒人们，在哥伦布之前几个世纪，这里曾繁盛过一个伟大文明。

They found that birds that flourish in cities come in two extremes: they're either big-brained but produce few offspring over their lifetime or they're small-brained and superfertile.

他们发现，在城市中繁盛鸟类有两个极端：它们要么脑容量大但一生只生育很少后代，要么它们脑容量小但繁殖力极强。

An old city, this, she reflected, but not so populous as it was in its glory, nor near so crowded as Qarth or Pentos or Lys.

这是一座古老城市，她思忖，但已没有当初繁盛，甚至不及魁尔斯、潘托斯或里斯。

As far back as I can remember, I was enchanted by the natural beauty of that region and the almost tropical exuberance of the plants and animals that grow there.

从记事起，我就被那一带自然美景深深陶醉, 包括地繁盛成长接近热带动植物。

This seeming catastrophe would end up being beneficial in another way, as Earth gained a new companion, which would play a major role in the blossoming of our ecosystem.

随着地球获得了一个新伙伴，这个表面上灾难最终会以另一种方式带来好处，它将在我们生态系统繁盛中发挥重要作用。

This cycling between sexual and asexual phases is called the alternation of generations, and it helps keep plants flourishing, from Granddaddy Succulent to Great-grandbaby Succulent — and even beyond that.

这种有性和无性之间循环被称为世代交替，它有助于保持植物繁盛，从祖孙多肉植物到曾孙多肉植物，甚至更远。

We understand they are  not some foreign visitors, but originate here, from our own solar system, and may even have led  to the blossoming of life itself on this planet.

我们知道他们不是外国访客，而是起源于我们自己太阳系，甚至可能导致了这个星球上生命繁盛。