Clinton dismissed a reporter's suggestion that the housing issue has driven U.S.-Israel relations to their lowest point in decades.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

None of us have seen a case of smallpox, it hasn't existed in the world for many decades now.

我们没人见过天花,在这个世界上它已经被消灭几十年了

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But, you know, I know someone who was a teacher in a Chicago public school for decades and lost his job, teaching math to high school kids, because he is gay.

我认识一个任职于,一所芝加哥公立学校几十年的老教师,被解雇了，他在高中教数学，仅仅是因为他是同性恋。

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(Speaking) Britons shivering through one of the coldest winters to hit the United Kingdom in decades got no reprieve from Mother Nature on Sunday.

VOA: standard.2010.01.10

You have 500 miles of canals dug just in the middle decades of the seventeenth century.

仅在十七世纪中叶,这里就开凿了,五百英里的人工运河

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The May 6 general election is expected to be the closest in decades, with polls suggesting that no party will win an outright majority.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

The subprime mortgage market was bringing people into the mortgage market who in prior decades would not have been involved-- would not have had any mortgage.

次贷抵押信贷市场,把十多年前那些,不能获得抵押贷款的人,带进了抵押信贷市场

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And from countrymen who only five years ago survived the worst natural disaster to hit the world in decades, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Four decades in a row the production of American cotton nearly doubled.

美国棉花产量翻倍的传奇,持续了四十年

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The current job market for graduates is the worst in decades, and fellow student Hannah Sell said many marched out of a sense of anger.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

Then, also emphasizing in the case of smallpox, how even after the scientific discovery was made, it took many, many decades for people to be able to produce the vaccine in large enough quantities and distribute it, so that you could think about making an impact on global prevalence of the disease.

同时重点就天花疫苗的发展展开了讨论,而即便当科学发现了天花病毒,仍然过了许多年,人类才能够,大规模生产并使用天花疫苗,由此你们可以了解到,在全球范围内,疫苗给天花以致命一击

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Despite some of the most challenging economic conditions in decades, American consumer confidence jumped unexpectedly this month, a sign that widespread pessimism might be dissipating.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

I think it's the most important revolution in finance of the last couple decades.

我认为行为金融学是近几十年中,金融学所发生的最重要的革命

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President Zardari has been harshly criticized by some within the Pakistani community in Britain, as well as from back home, for taking this trip - especially at a time when Pakistan is experiencing the worst flooding in decades.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

So what could be our results of movement in 2 decades?

因此，我们的运动能在20年后获得怎样的结果？

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In the first 51 days of this president, the administration has passed a series of really dramatic moves: the biggest financial rescue package that we have seen in decades, the largest stimulus in the history of the country, the biggest home foreclosure prevention and mortgage assistance program since the Depression."

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

Now think of another product in American history that doubled every decade for four decades, and then imagine that that product became the country's, without question, absolute largest export.

思考下在美国历史中有没有另一种产品曾,有如此辉煌的成就,那么这个产品将毫无疑问地,成为美国最大的出口产品

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Observers say with the current reunification talks not only being seen as the best hope for reunification in decades as well as carrying the hopes of Turkey's EU bid, whoever wins this weekend's election in Turkish Cyprus will be aware there are powerful forces behind the continuation of those talks.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Whether you measure it in terms of dollars of value added or in terms of returns, Yale has the best record among colleges and universities for the past two decades.

不管是从增值的角度,还是从收益率的角度衡量,过去20年里,耶鲁的表现是所有高校中最好的

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"More than 2 decades ago, I arrived in Illinois as a young man eager to do my part in building a better America.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

The options are a very useful technology for managing risks and I think that we'll see a rapid--Over the next few decades, we'll see rapid expansion in the scope of options contracts traded on the exchanges.

期权是管理风险的,一个非常有用的技术,我认为在往后的几十年,交易市场上,我们将会看到期权合同的迅速发展

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Last year,several scientists had expressed doubt about the possibility of the large Himalayan glaciers melting in a few decades.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

John Lintner was a professor at the harvard Business School, who, decades ago, did a survey of people who decide on dividends and asked them, what goes on in your mind and what do you think about when you decide on dividends?

约翰·林特纳是哈佛商学院的教授,数十年前,他调查了有权决定分红的人们,问他们考虑些什么,在决定分红时会考虑哪些因素

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Professor Gerald Curtis, a specialist in Japanese politics for decades at Columbia University, says some change is to be expected.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

We've gotten, over the last two decades in particular, very sophisticated about taking pictures inside the body allowing doctors to look inside the body and predict things about our internal physiology that they couldn't predict just by looking at us or putting their hands on us.

特别是在近二十年当中,我们对体内造影已经十分熟悉,它使医生能够看到身体内部,并预测我们体内的生理变化,而仅仅是通过,视诊或者触诊是不能预测这些变化的

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She spent decades studying and living among Central African chimpanzees in the wild and now campaigns to protect the endangered species.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

All of the major universities -Harvard has been doing very well too and so have Duke, MIT, Amherst,a lot of -it seems that universities manage to invest very well, at least they have in recent decades.

所有主要高校...,当然哈佛做得也很不错,杜克,麻省理工,阿默斯特,都很不错,似乎各大高校的投资收益都不错,至少最近几十年如此

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"And the Super Bowl for decades has been the one time that you are actually interested in watching the ads.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

Efficient markets" is a theory about-- well it came in about three decades ago, maybe it's closer to four decades ago-- it's a theory that financial markets work very well and incorporate information very well.

有效市场是...,大约三十年前,甚至四十年前,有人提出了这一假说,他认为金融市场运行良好,而且信息披露全透明

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The shortest term debt instrument in the United States is the Federal Funds Rate, which is an overnight rate--one day maturity-- and the longest issued by the Government is a thirty-year government bond, which will be repaid three decades in the future.

美国最短期的债券,是联邦基金利率,隔夜拆兑,一天到期,而时间最长的国债,是一种三十年期的政府债券,未来三十年才兑现

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