Opera was commonplace in Italy for almost a thousand years before it became commercial as a venture.
上千年来，歌剧在意大利一直都是很普通的事物，直到它变成一种被商业化的项目。
It took nearly a thousand years before they perfected the process to produce high-quality ceramics known as porcelain.
他们花了近一千年的时间才完善了生产高质量陶瓷的工艺，这种陶瓷被称为瓷器。
A thousand years before Luke Skywalker, a generation before Darth Bane, in a galaxy far, far away…
卢克·天行者前一千年，达斯·班恩前一个世代，在一个很远很远的银河系…
A thousand years before Plato lived, a truly amazing civilisation thrived here in the eastern 4 Mediterranean.
在柏拉图时代千年之前，有一个确切存在的令人惊奇的文明，在地中海东部兴起。
But in just a tiny sliver of its history - the last few thousand years - the patterns of vegetation altered much faster than before.
但是，在某一小段时间历史时期内——即过去的几千年——植被分布的变化比以前要快得多。
In this case, the formation of Jupiter-mass worlds may only take a few thousand years to form, well before the planet-building materials are ejected from the system.
这种情形下，类木行星的形成就只需要几千年的时间，远在天体物质被星系抛射出去。
IMAGINE a small group of farmers tending a rice paddy some 5,000 years ago in eastern Asia or sowing seeds in a freshly cleared forest in Europe a couple of thousand years before that.
试想一下，5000年前的东亚一群农民在耕种稻谷或是在更早几千年前的欧洲一片刚开垦的森林里播种的情景。
On a visit 150 years ago Mark Twain wrote wryly of the three-millennia-old city: “She has looked upon the dry bones of a thousand empires, and will see the tombs of a thousand more before she dies.”
150年前马克.吐温（MarkTwain ）访问大马士革时幽默的评论这座三千年的古城：“她已经见识了一千个帝国的枯骨，而在她消亡之前，它会再看到另外一千个帝国的坟墓。”
An autorickshaw would cost twelve, fourteen thousand to buy, a small tea shop four times as much. That meant thirty, thirty-five years of such work before they could do anything else.
买一台机动三轮车的费用大概是12000到14000卢比，一个小茶铺的费用是它的4倍，这意味着他们得花上30到35年的时间来全力赚这笔钱。
The Gen'Dai that would become Durge was born two thousand years before the fall of the Republic, and was regarded by his elders as an exceptional physical specimen at a young age.
后来成为德奇的根代人出生于共和国衰落前两千年，年幼时被长辈们视为身体杰出的榜样。
We were fluttering, wandering, longing creatures a thousand thousand years before the sea and the wind in the forest gave us words.
我们是有海洋以前千万年的扑腾着、飘游着、追求着的生物，森林里的风把语言给予了我们。
Standing before the compound, it seemed to Dinin as if the place were a thousand years removed from that time of glory.
站在废墟面前，狄宁似乎觉得从那个荣耀的时刻已跨越了千年时光。
Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
印刷术发现前，一世纪等于一千年。
If there had to be a limit of time before the love, I hope it would be ten thousand years.
如果要在这三个字上加一个期限的话，我希望是一万年！
Originating from ancient Chinese paintings, colored rock painting, boasting a history of a thousand years, once was a dominating category in China before the rise of Chinese ink-wash painting.
它起源于中国古代绘画，有著千年的历史，是在中国写意水墨兴起之前的中国主流绘画。
This time we're going way, way back in time - a thousand years back in time - to the Original family's life before they were vampires.
这一次我们将会时光倒流――回到一千多年之前――看到原始吸血鬼还是人类的时候。
Chiseled into a 15 sun-bleached rock cliff, they peered down at them, as they had nearly two thousand years before, Laila imagined, at 16 caravans crossing the valley on the Silk Road.
大佛是在一片被阳光晒得发白的石壁上被开凿出来的，居高临下地俯视着他们。莱拉想象将近两千年之前，它们也是这样俯瞰着途经这座位于丝绸之路上的峡谷的商旅。
Chiseled into a 15 sun-bleached rock cliff, they peered down at them, as they had nearly two thousand years before, Laila imagined, at 16 caravans crossing the valley on the Silk Road.
大佛是在一片被阳光晒得发白的石壁上被开凿出来的，居高临下地俯视着他们。莱拉想象将近两千年之前，它们也是这样俯瞰着途经这座位于丝绸之路上的峡谷的商旅。
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