虽然英语有2500多年的历史，但第一部英语词典直到17世纪才出现。
Although English has a history of over 2,500 years, the first English dictionary didn't appear until the 17th century.
几世纪以来，一种重要的佐料却找不到了——第一批西红柿直到16世纪才从南美洲传到欧洲。
For centuries one important ingredient was missing—the first tomatoes were not brought to Europe until the sixteenth century, from South America.
摩艾石像的建造者的身份直到20世纪才得到确认。
The identity of the moai builders was in doubt until well into the twentieth century.
关于尼斯湖水怪的第一个故事已经流传了500多年，但是关于尼斯湖水怪的传说直到20世纪才广泛流传。
The first story about a monster in Loch Ness was told over 500 years ago, but the legend of the monster spread widely only in the twenties century.
但这一切都是到19世纪才发生。
That's not really until the nineteenth century that that happens.
直到19世纪才市又开始活跃起来，并从后面的墙壁重现。
Not until the 19th century did the city again begin to come alive and reemerge from behind its walls.
关于进步的观点有着悠久的历史，但是直到17世纪才开始繁荣。
The idea of progress has a long history, but it started to flower in the 17th century.
在新诞生的美国，白种人直到19世纪才从东海岸向西深远进军。
The white population of the new United States did not stretch far beyond the eastern seaboard until the 19th century.
当时，中国钢铁年产量12万吨，西方国家直至20世纪才迎头赶超。
China’s iron manufacturing industry produced one hundred twenty thousand tons a year—an amount not equaled the West until the twentieth century.
问：你说的“拖延”这个词直到16世纪才进入英语语言我觉得很有趣。
QUESTION FROM CHRIS: I found it interesting how you said that the word for procrastination did not enter the English language until the 16th century.
它名列世界上最高的建筑达43个多世纪，直到公元19世纪才被超越。
It ranked as the tallest structure on Earth for more than 43 centuries, only to be surpassed in height in the nineteenth century AD.
Weinstock博士说“这一系列的疾病都是在20世纪才出现的。”
"There's a whole series of diseases that just emerged in the 20th century," says Dr. Weinstock.
食品领域的研究者认为，它最早的版本要早于18世纪才在意大利普及的番茄。
Food scholars believe the earliest versions predated the 18th-century popularization of tomatoes in Italy.
为什么这个从17世纪才为人所知的纸牌游戏的名字会叫whist，拼写为wh-呢？
Why should whist, the name of a card game that has been known only since the 17th century, be spelled with wh -?
在开始时，它声称相对而言阿尔巴尼亚人是这个地区的新人，他们是在16世纪才在这里定居的。
For a start, it asserted that the Albanians were relative newcomers to the territory, settling it only in the 16th century.
有趣的是我们注意到，虽然培根在13世纪末期就使用放大镜了，但直到17世纪才由列文虎克将放大镜对准一滴水。
It is interesting to note that magnifying lenses were used by Bacon in the late 1200s, but had never been focused on a drop of water until the 1600s by Leeuwenhoek.
教堂始建于13世纪，但是但它的圆顶(当地人称为伊尔大教堂)直到15世纪才完工，由建筑师菲利普·布鲁内莱斯基监督完成。
The building was started in the thirteenth century but the construction of its dome (known locally as il Duomo) was not completed until the fifteenth, overseen by the architect Filippo Brunelleschi.
我的心砰砰直跳，由于酒劲，我的脑中混乱了很长时间，心想，我的天哪，我一定是回到了石器时代，然后才慢慢意识到出口标志不是20世纪才多起来的么。
My heart is racing and for a long liquor-addled moment I think Holy shit, I've gone all theway back to the Stone Age until Irealize that EXIT signs tend to congregate in the twentieth century.
妇女在20世纪50年代才被容许完全享有选举权。
令人震惊地，这种毫无作用又危险的外科手术直到20世纪30年代才结束。
Shockingly, this useless and dangerous surgery did not end until the 1930s.
直到18世纪，这个秘密才开始被揭开。
It wasn't until the eighteenth century that the secret began to unravel.
直到16世纪左右，茶才出现在英国。
直到19世纪，卫生设施才开始普及。
Sanitation did not become widespread until the 19th century.
小学教育直到20世纪90年代才普及。
直到20世纪70年代，它才在英国流行起来。
直到20世纪90年代，它们才引起美国公众的注意。
They did not catch public attention in the United States until the 1990s.
直到20世纪90年代，它们才引起美国公众的注意。
They did not catch public attention in the United States until the 1990s.
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