instead we may muddle through crisis after crisis, slowly getting poorer not all at once but relentlessly, irreversibly, over time.
我们不会一夜之间一贫如洗,相反,我们会熬过一场又一场危机,然后贫穷会随着时间的推移逐渐降临,毫不留情,不可逆转。
most scientists think that the native peoples migrated originally from asia to north america, not all at once but in wave after wave over thousands of years.
许多科学家认为从亚洲迁移到北美洲的本土原始居民,不是突然迁移的而是一波一波经过数千年迁移过去的。这句话这么理解对吗?
however, over the course of time, some ancient israelites, not all at once and not unanimously, broke with this view and articulated a different view, that there was one divine power, one god.
然而随着时间推移一些犹太人,不是全体一致地,摒弃了这种,认同并信仰一种完全不同的,那就是世上只有一个神,上帝。