If it sounds like Aiyar's five years in Beijing have left her reluctant to give a definitive answer to this question-one she poses often in her book, Smoke and Mirrors: an Experience of china-she is.
如果这听起来好象是因为艾亚尔在北京的五年使得她不愿意对这个问题给出一个明确的回答，确实是这样。这个问题她常常在她的书中提起，书名是《烟与镜：经历中国》。
Sixty years after the publication of Orwell's masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four, that crystal first line sounds as natural and compelling as ever.
在奥威尔的传世之作出版六十年后，《1984》第一行的描述依旧水晶一般，历久弥新，引人注目。
In our present world of high speed, instant response, and multimedia, words like discipline are little used, and spending 10 years to master one skill sounds quaint.
在眼下这个高速度、快反应，五光十色的世界里，像“克制”这类词汇已经很少被用到了，而花费十年时间去精通一门技能这种事情，听起来甚至有些古怪。
Palin has also given several interviews in recent days, and clearly sounds interested in the possibility of running for president four years from now.
佩林这些天来接受了好几家媒体的采访，而且显然对4年之后，再度出山，表示有兴趣。
I'd been learning Korean for about two years, and my speaking level is now high, but I was really struggling with particular sounds, "said Rhiannon."
“我学习韩语有两年了，虽然目前我的口语水平较高，但是却难以应对个别发音，”里安农说。
After analyzing the sounds, they concluded that people and great apes inherited laughter from a Shared ancestor that lived more than 10 million years ago.
在分析了这些笑声之后，研究人员得出结论，人和大猩猩的笑声源自共同的祖先——他们生活在距今一千万年前。
What you are saying sounds sensible, but surely it's the same thing Jaques and others would have said 40 years ago?
问：你说的听起来很有道理，但是这和杰奎斯以及其他人四十年前所说的是同样的观点么？
Although this sounds impressive, it amounts to a saving of only 10%-and it took seven years.
虽然听起来给人印象深刻，但总共只省下了成本的10%，而且花费了7年时间。
'I'd been learning Korean for about two years, and my speaking level is now high, but I was really struggling with particular sounds.
我已经学了2年韩语了，我现在的口语水平也到一定水平了，但是以前某些音我要很努力去发也发不好。
What does it sounds like when two black holes collide a billion light years away? Scientists learned this year, and you've never heard a more beautiful chirp.
十亿光年之外的两个黑洞碰撞时会发出什么声音？今年科学家发现那是一种啁啾之声，美得你无法想象。
The sounds of doors opening and closing. These sounds were well-known to her after eight years as his secretary.
作为他的秘书，这些声音对她来说，工作了八年之后，是再熟悉不过的了。
That sounds like a sweeping statement, but it's true - Uranus takes 84 years to circle the Sun, so it won't be in this part of your chart again, and thank goodness for that.
这听起来像一个笼统，但它是真的-天王星需要84年绕太阳一周，所以它不会在你这图的一部分了，并感谢老天爷。
The technology of music making has exponentially grown over the past ten years and we now have at our disposal an abundance of software, hardware, sounds and techniques for which to create music.
音乐制作科技在过去的十年快速成长，大量的音乐制作软体、硬体、声音与技术可供我们支配使用。
Yet it isn't surprising, and if we are not to spend the next four to eight years alternating between exasperation and confusion as he sounds off, we need to learn a new way of listening.
在未来的四到八年里，当他大放厥词时，如果我们不想在恼怒和迷惑之间切换的话，就需要学习一种新的倾听方式。
"I'd been learning Korean for about two years, and my speaking level is now high, but I was really struggling with particular sounds," said Rhiannon.
“我学习韩语有两年了，虽然目前我的口语水平较高，但是却难以应对个别发音，”里安农说。
The atmosphere aboard the ferry and the sights, sounds, and salty smell of the bustling harbor were all deeply familiar, because I had been a regular commuter on this line for more than ten years.
渡船上的气氛、景象、声响，还有熙熙攘攘的港口上空弥漫着的咸味都令我感到如此亲切，因为我过去可是这条航线上十多年的老乘客呢。
The atmosphere aboard the ferry and the sights, sounds, and salty smell of the bustling harbor were all deeply familiar, because I had been a regular commuter on this line for more than ten years.
渡船上的气氛、景象、声响，还有熙熙攘攘的港口上空弥漫着的咸味都令我感到如此亲切，因为我过去可是这条航线上十多年的老乘客呢。
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