那是大约1961年或是1962年的事了，那时候我还是一名飞行员。

It was around 1961 or '62, when I was a navigator in a tanker.

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那是1980年的事了，我们都不会想到，那将是我们在一起的最后一年。

That was in 1980. Neither of us knew that it was to be the last year of our life together.

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这是前些年的事了。那年，我在路上看到一个拿着棍子的成年男人在追打两个穿着化妆服的学龄儿童。

I think it was the year I saw two costumed schoolchildren being chased down the road by a grown man armed with a stick.

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And then the most surprising thing of all was a study done not long ago, published in 1997 of registered dieticians.

不久前的实验中,让人惊奇的事发生了,在1997年由注册营养学家发表

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So, Obama went here, I guess it's... I think it was '86?

奥巴马在这儿上学大概是1986年的事了吧？

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Another famous story: In 1770, he goes in to Rome, into the Sistine Chapel.

另一件世人皆知的事,在1770年,他去了罗马,来到西斯廷教堂

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