At Lucasfilm Ltd., the creators of Star Wars, that sounds like a business model from a long time ago, in a company far, far away.

对星球大战的缔造者卢卡斯公司而言，这听起来像是很久以前的商业模式。

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Under duress, and in suitably lawyerly periphrases, they may, at most, express a compassionate “regret” for something inconsequential that they, or ideally someone else, did a long time ago.

最多就是在人们强迫下，他们才可能用律师般拐弯抹角的说法，表达他们对于很久以前，他们或是他们认为的某个人，做的某些无关紧要发出一点富有同情心的“遗憾”。

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"The algorithms we use to monitor ice extent were developed a long time ago," says Stroeve, "based on what 'typical' ice looked like at that time."

“我们使用的算法监测海冰范围是很久以前制定的，”施特略夫说，“那是基于当时的一些“典型”的冰像。”

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Now this was nineteen-eighty-two, quite a long time ago, at a time when people really weren't paying much attention to calories like they are now, so you'd expect the errors to decline as time goes on and there's some evidence of that, but they're errors nonetheless.

这是1982年的实验,很早之前了,当时的人们并不像今天的人们一样,那么关注卡路里,所以你会预计误差会随时间推移而减小,有证据证明了这一点,但误差仍然存在

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The beer from a long time ago was recognizably the same, but at the same time, it was rather different.

NPR: Looking at the World Through Beer Glasses

At the same time, President Assad's force long ago passed the point at which they could hope for a final, decisive assault like that of Assad senior at Hama in 1982.

BBC: News - Syria analysis: Can Assad's army withstand growing pressure?

On the other flank, many people who use e-mail decided a long time ago to go with nothing at all, or with "Hi" (followed by the recipient's name), as a reflection of the new informality and ease of note-writing.

CNN: Is 'Dear' dead?