Ten years sounds far, far away.
十年听起来遥遥无期。
"We're paleontologists studying events 250 million years ago," he adds, so "a hundred thousand years sounds like overnight to us."
“我们是研究发生在两亿五千两百万年前的事件的古生物学家”，他补充道，“十万年对我们来说仅仅是一个夜晚而已”。
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》。
Amazing as it now sounds, Tambora was largely overlooked for some 160 years.
现在听起来似乎使人很惊讶，坦博拉火山在很大程度上被忽略了约160年。
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？
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。
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。
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。
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。
You can sense a few different strands of music from the last few years coming together with the sounds of an earlier era to form something new.
你能感知到，最近几年来一些不同趋向的音乐和一个更早些时代的声音相结合在了一起，形成了一些新东西。
"It all sounds so much like your wife's accident," I say. "Ten years."
这听起来都很像你妻子的那场事故啊，“我说，”十年前。
Spending a few years abroad, largely on the company dime, sounds almost as good as a paid vacation. Almost.
在海外工作几年时间，而且大部分时候是公司出钱，这听起来几乎就跟公费度假一样完美。
I like to tell that story because it sounds obvious that if you were a goldsmith hundreds of years of ago you would have probably become a banker -it would just be the natural thing to do.
我喜欢讲这个故事，因为这里面的道理很简单，如果你是几百年前的一名金匠，你很可能就会变成一个银行家，这是自然而然的事。
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。
For years audiophiles have tried to persuade more casual music fans that a vinyl record played on a decent sound system sounds better than a digital recording played on the same system.
多年来发烧友一直试图说服更多的休闲音乐迷，一张体黑胶唱片在一个体面的音响系统中播放的声音比一个数字音乐在同样印象系统中播放效果好得多。
That sounds bad, but it might have been better to have experienced a milder version of a downturn in 1998 than the more severe version of 10 years later.
听上去吓人，但相较而言在1998年经历一次较温和的衰退总比10年后遭受一次惨痛的多的多危机好的多。
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've been doing these sounds for over 15 years, so I know where to go into my head to pull out a certain sound.
我配那些声音超过15年了，因此我知道要去我脑子里的哪个地方取出一种特定的声音来。
I know it sounds corny, but it's really true that after 24 years with this company, I still come to work inspired by the possibilities every day.
我知道这听起来很过时，但是在微软工作了24年之后，我仍然会因为每天的可能性而受到鼓舞。
'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。
But they often buy it arbitrarily — $1 million sounds like a lot to some people, but if they earn $150, 000 a year, that is less than seven years of income.
不过，他们购买的保险金额往往较为随意——对一些人来说，一百万美元的保险金额似乎很多，但如果他们年收入15万美元的话，那一百万美元都不抵七年收入。
His soundtrack, which sounds like a jet engine decelerating into television static, condenses millions of years of cosmic noise into a span of about five seconds.
他的配乐听起来就象喷气式飞机引擎减速直到电视静态，将数以百万计的宇宙声音压制入一个约5秒钟段子。
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。
It sounds like a spoof, but a couple of years ago British researchers found it was no joke.
听起来像是恶搞，但几年前，英国研究人员发现这并非玩笑。
It sounds like a spoof, but a couple of years ago British researchers found it was no joke.
听起来像是恶搞，但几年前，英国研究人员发现这并非玩笑。
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