But there was a problem: transits of Venus, unlike those of Mercury, are rare, occurring in pairs roughly eight years apart every hundred or so years.
但有一个问题：和水星凌日不同的是，金星凌日是罕见的，大约每隔一百年会成对出现八年的时间。
They are noting that the Victorians suddenly seem to become more human as the hundred-or-so years that separate us fade away through our common experience of laughter.
他们注意到，维多利亚时代的人，似乎突然变得更有人情味了，因为我们共同经历的笑声，我们之间相隔的100多年时光逐渐消失了。
I was there just five or so years and, well, that's how we met.
我大概当了5年的理事，所以就认识了。
What then can we expect from the next 10 or so years on the Web?
那么未来的十年或更多我们能从互联网上期望些什么呢？
Five or so years ago Vuitton depended to a large degree on one market, Japan.
大约5年前，VUITTON在很大程度上倚赖一个市场——日本。
Jim Collins: Well, climbing has been part of my life since I was 13 or so years old.
吉姆·柯林斯：我十三岁左右就开始攀岩了。
For 15 or so years, Apple and Steve Jobs have once again been whole - practically synonymous.
大概15年前，苹果和斯蒂夫又一次合二为一，甚至成了相互的代名词。
So does the perceived need to secure energy lines. China’s oil use is doubling every 15 or so years.
中国需要保证其能源运输线的安全，中国的石油需求量每15年左右就翻一番。
Over time the hotel has since fallen into disrepair and for the last 30 or so years, has been left abandoned.
长久以来，这个宾馆沦落到长达三十年左右无人修缮，于是就被弃用了。
I've built a large set of contacts over the past six or so years so it wasn't super hard to ping people and get sponsors.
过去的6年多里，我已经建立了大量的联系，所以获得赞助不是很难。
Many Britons have never heard of it: school history tends to skip the 400-or-so years between 1066 and the start of the Tudor era.
许多英国人压根就没听说过这个地方：在他们的历史课本上，从1066年一直到都铎王朝开始的400年间是一片空白。
The volcano made it above that surface only a million or so years ago, since when the island has grown to about 100 square kilometres.
火山喷发使这座岛屿露出水面距今大概只有一万年左右，自那以后，这座岛屿生长到了大约100平方公里。
Massive galaxies that existed during the first billion or so years of cosmic history are believed to be the early ancestors of these ellipticals.
人们相信，宇宙最初的十亿年间已经存在的大星系是这些椭圆星系的先祖。
With such a relatively trivial change for a known set of problems with the answer already in place, the question is why didn't they do so years ago?
考虑到对于一系列存在着答案的已知问题而言，只需作出如此微不足道的改变就已经足于解决了，问题是为何它们不在数年前就这样做呢？
And let us not forget the iPhone 4g which is now offering video calling between phones - a dream that many of us thought impossible some twenty or so years ago.
我们不要忘了iPhone4g现在可以提供手机间的视频通话——这是我们大约二十年前认为不可能实现的一个梦。
Although productivity has grown significantly over the past 15 or so years, median hourly compensation has not — for either group, college educated or high school educated.
虽然生产力在过去15年间有了显著增长，小时工资却没有同步提升——无论是高中毕业生还是大学毕业生。
Over the 40 or so years of the story, the theater itself undergoes many transitions, so the gently comic film not only celebrates but eulogizes the community and the picture show.
在故事的这四十年间，电影院经历里许多变迁，所以这个温馨有趣的电影是在庆贺更是在颂扬这个社会以及电影。
I like him, he is a fantastic professional. I think in the future - certainly not soon but in maybe five or so years - you could be interviewing him as a manager somewhere in England or Wales.
基恩说到关于贝拉米的未来规划，“他是个很职业的球员，我想以后，当然不是现在，可能至少五年以后，你在采访他的时候他可能就是英格兰或者威尔士某队的主教练了。”
The statute of limitations on crimes other than homicide is five years, so Reyes cannot be prosecuted for the attack.
除杀人罪以外的罪行的诉讼时效为5年，所以雷耶斯不能因为那次袭击被起诉。
If she spent five years in Paris, how come her French is so bad?
既然她在巴黎待了五年，她的法语怎么还会这样糟糕？
After so many years she was still instantly recognizable.
过了这么多年，还是一眼就能认出她。
She worked for years as a bookkeeper, so she's practised at budgeting.
她做了多年簿记员，因此她擅长预算。
I've been with this bank for so many years.
我在这家银行工作了这么多年。
But I've been with this bank for so many years.
但我在这家银行工作了这么多年。
The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years—so why shouldn't we?
化石记录显示，已经有许多物种存活了数百万年——那么我们为什么不能呢？
The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years—so why shouldn't we?
化石记录显示，已经有许多物种存活了数百万年——那么我们为什么不能呢？
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