This was how things worked not very long ago.
就在不久前发生了这样的事。
Not very long ago, it was also unthinkable that a virus would shut down nations and that safety nets would be proven so disastrously lacking in flexibility.
不久以前，人们还无法想象一种病毒能使众多国家封闭，而安全网被证明是如此灾难性地缺乏灵活性。
The problem was solved not very long ago.
这个问题不久前被解决了。
Not very long ago, children were often forced to write with their right hands.
不久前，孩子们常常被迫使用右手写字。
The man in this picture is holding a mastodon tooth that was found not very long ago.
照片中的人拿著一颗不久前出土的乳齿象牙齿。
Not very long ago a man named Chris Henshilwood stumbled upon one possible answer to this question.
不久前，一个名为克里斯-罕什伍德的男子偶然地遇到这个问题的一个可能的答案。
I must admit that not very long ago I would have scoffed at even the idea of having children of my own.
我必须承认，不久之前，我还对拥有我自己的孩子这个观点嗤之以鼻。
If the men of England feel that England is no longer a man's country-for apparently it was so not very long ago-then it isn't.
——如果英国的男人自己觉得英国已经不再是男人的国家了——不久之前英国显然就不是了——那它就确实不是了。
Though I transferred to this school not long ago, I have fitted into the class because my classmates were very nice.
尽管我不久前才转学到这所学校，但是我现在已经融入班级了，因为我的同学们都非常好。
Computers were invented not long ago, but they are very useful for us.
电脑发明的历史虽然不长，但它们对我们却很有用。
The researchers say the scene depictsthe dramatic - and violent - clashes that were taking place long, long ago, in a galaxy not very far away.
研究人员说这一场景描绘了很久很久以前，离我们不远处的一个星系内部壮观而暴烈的缠斗撞击。
A very long time ago when I was a horse in a previous experience, I remember I was not very well treated; and I hated the experience of being a horse.
很长一段时间前，当我前世是一匹马的时候，我记得我没有得到很好的对待；我讨厌作马的感觉。
Not so long ago I was an expectant father. I had questions, a lot of questions actually, and what I found was very few good places to get answers.
不久以前我还是一名准爸爸。我有一些问题，事实上是许多问题，但是我鲜少找到好地方去得到答案。
On a flight to Denver not too long ago, I watched as a very large woman struggled to settle into her seat.
不久前在前往丹佛的航班上，我目睹了一位非常胖的女士费力地挤进座位。
There was a time not so very long ago that I didn’t pay much attention to where my money went.
不久以前的某个时候，我并没怎么注意钱花到哪儿去了。
I saw a lady, not long ago, in India, and she had complete paralysis on her left side, a very intelligent woman, but had both anosognosia and somatoparaphrenia - you know what that is, right?
不久前，在印度我见到一位女士，她左边身子完全瘫痪了。她很聪明，不过同时患上了病感失认症和somatoparaphrenia症——你知道那是什么，是吗？
It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of the parish of die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire, -die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread!
时间不短了，我老在这个‘不挨冻你就得挨饿不挨饿你就得挨冻’的教区里当一个教民！
Yes, Sir, but that is long ago; and when her circumstances were very different: I could not be easy to neglect her wishes now.
不错，先生，但那已是很久以前了，而且当时的情况不同。现在要是我无视她的心愿，我会不安心的。
That may not seem like very long ago, but in Internet time it's an eon.
这看起来不是很久前的事，但在网际网路时代，它的一个永世。
Not so very long ago I was outside in the sunshine, inhaling the fragrance of rosemary and lavender, and picking a nosegay of penstemon and anemone.
没多久以前，我还在外面阳光下呼吸着迷迭香和薰衣草的芬芳，采摘起一束钓钟柳和银莲花。
Who would have thought that possible not so very long ago?
不久前，谁会认为那种事可能发生呢？
But still Mittavinda had not regained the peace of mind thrown away by the village monk, so very long ago.
但是弥达维德的内心仍然没有回复到很久以前做乡村和尚时的宁静。
Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially.
许多年前我们同命运订下了约会，现在时辰已到，是我们实现誓言的时候了，不是全部或完全实现，但是绝大部分实现。
Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially.
许多年前我们同命运订下了约会，现在时辰已到，是我们实现誓言的时候了，不是全部或完全实现，但是绝大部分实现。
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