Tiger Woods, who was the second most popular pick a year ago, did not make the list this year following Revelations about his marital infidelities.
老虎伍兹，这个去年的最受欢迎的第二名今年因为婚姻问题没有进入榜单。
The cost of this can be seen in a group of ten-year-olds who went with my friend to the beach not long ago.
不久以前我的朋友带着一群十岁的小朋友去海滩玩。在这些孩子身上我们可以看到这些所带来的不良影响。
NOT long ago economists and policymakers in America clung to hopesthat the economy, after lurching through the depths of a financialcrisis earlier this year, would rebound in the second six months.
美国的经济学家和政策制定者在不久前还认为，在淌过本年早些时候爆发的金融危机的深水沟以后，经济将在下半年复苏。
Dubai's probable mistake was that it did not do this a year ago when these Banks were more receptive to restructuring talks.
迪拜的错误可能在于：它没有在一年前作出这种安排，而当时这些银行更容易接受贷款重组谈判。
Since Paul Otellini took over as chief executive a year ago this month-the first boss from sales, not engineering-the company has been chastised for placing marketing ahead of technology.
自从保罗·奥特里尼——第一个销售出身而不是技术的老板——担任首席执行官以来，其将市场置于技术之前的做法已经受到了教训。
One year ago, this would not have been possible, but the world has changed.
一年之前，这一切都是不可能。但世界在变。
In case of epidemics, — we have had the typhus fever this year; we had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at times, — we know not what to do.
传染病方面，今年我们有过伤寒，两年前，有过疹子，有时多到百来个病人，我们真不知道怎么办。
Not that any of this wasn't happening in any of our teams a year ago; it is the synergistic nature of all these points coming together in every single team that was missing then.
一年前，我们团队中也不是完全没有这些；只是当初很多都错过了，而现在每个团队都能做到所有这些。
So scientists not only predicted how hot this year was likely to be six months ago, they forecast a decade ago just how much the world would heat up 10 years later.
如此看来，科学家们不仅在六个月前预言了今年可能热到什么程度，而且在十年前预言了十年后世界气温将升高多少。
A year or so ago I spoke with a nutritionist and he advised me on a diet according to my blood type. This includes not eating pasta!
差不多一年多前吧，我和一个营养专家谈话，他建议我根据我的血型按照食谱吃饭。这里面就包括了不吃意大利料理！
Even if admit this view, in the western countries the time of first proof of the Pythagoras theorem is not probably early than epoch ago 585 year.
即使承认这一看法，西方最早给出勾股定理证明的时间也不会早于公元前585年，即相传毕达哥拉斯出生的那一年。
It was not until after I entered my room did I realize that this was the precise place that I composed the song "Forever's First Day" a year ago!
直到我踏入房间，才发现这是我一年前创作《永远的第一天》的地方。
Maybe this little story will help: Not long ago, I coached a 40-year-old man who worked for an asset-management company.
也许下面一则小故事会帮助你：不久前，我给一位40岁在资产管理公司工作的男士做辅导。
CENTURY, it seems, is not enough. One hundred years ago this year, the first world physics conference took place in Brussels, Belgium.
整整一百年前，第一届国际物理学会议在比利时布鲁塞尔举行。
There was a dramatic illustration of this actually, a year ago, Copenhagen, climate change conference, Europe was not at the final negotiating table.
一年前就有一个戏剧性的例证证明这个观点哥本哈根，气候变化会议。欧洲没有出现在最后讨论谈判桌上。
Long ago, British children believed that every year they were entitled to one lawless night of pranks they could not be punished for, and this was called Mischief Night.
从前，英国的孩子相信，他们每年都有权力在一个晚上随心所欲，恣意妄为，并且做什么都不会被惩罚。 他们还把这一晚美其名曰“淘气之夜”。
It looks that wages that were good last year are not good any more this year and that cycle was much lower a few years ago.
去年的工资看起来很好，今年就没有那么好了，几年前这个周期要低得多。
If anybody had told me a year ago that this place would be my home, that I should be spending month after month here, as I have done, I certainly should not have believed them.
要是一年前谁对我说这地方会成为我的家，说我会像现在这样一个月又一个月地住下去，我说什么也不会相信啊！
But he said this could only happen if five conditions were met, and probably not before 2020 when the current round of voluntary pledges agreed a year ago are due to end.
但他表示，这只会在5项条件得到满足的情况下才会发生，而且很可能不会在2020年之前成为现实；各国在一年前达成的当前这一轮自愿承诺将在2020年失效。
But he said this could only happen if five conditions were met, and probably not before 2020 when the current round of voluntary pledges agreed a year ago are due to end.
但他表示，这只会在5项条件得到满足的情况下才会发生，而且很可能不会在2020年之前成为现实；各国在一年前达成的当前这一轮自愿承诺将在2020年失效。
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