Britain might still be part of France if it weren't for a disastrous flood 200,000 years ago, according to scientists from Imperial College in London.
伦敦帝国理工学院的科学家称，如果不是20万年前的一场灾难性的洪水，英国可能仍然是法国的一部分。
Practically unheard of a generation ago, the discounts have become a routine part of many businesses—as common as color televisions in motel rooms and free coffee on airliners.
上一代人几乎闻所未闻的打折已经成为许多企业的惯用手段——就像汽车旅馆房间里的彩电和航班上的免费咖啡一样普遍。
Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession, but it is down by 640,000 (7.9 percent) from its year-ago level.
非自愿兼职的员工人数仍远高于经济衰退前的人数，但较上年同期减少了64万人，下降了7.9%。
It was a few years ago, and I had taken a part-time holiday-season job in a video store at the local shopping mall.
那是几年前的事了，我在假期期间在当地购物中心的一家音像店做了一份兼职。
Over ten years ago, a family of beavers turned up in a part of the river Otter, in Devon.
十多年前，德文郡水獭河中出现了一个海狸家族。
Both of them volunteered to take part in the battle against COVID-19 not long ago.
不久前，他们都自愿加入了抗击新冠肺炎疫情的队伍。
Their release was the first reintroduction of jaguars in that part of Argentina since the species almost died out there 70 years ago.
它们的放归野外，是自70年前美洲虎几乎灭绝以来阿根廷该地区首次重新出现美洲虎的身影。
Many years ago, a co-worker and I were sent to do some demolition as part of remodeling project.
多年以前，一个同事和我被派去做一些拆除工作，这些是作为改造项目的一部分的。
Part One was about 3 years ago, but now it has happened again.
第一部分是讲3年前的事情，但现在又一次发生了。
They have minimised the threat from open-access journals, which seemed considerable a few years ago, in part by buying some of the best ones.
他们将来自公开获取期刊的威胁降到最低，几年前，这类期刊带来的威胁似乎很大，部分原因是由于它们购买了一些最好的期刊。
I'd encourage you to refresh your memory and read one of my blog post back one year ago - PLM Data, Identification and Part Numbers.
我想再次唤醒大家的记忆，请重新读一读这篇一年前写的博文——PLM数据，身份标识和零件编号。
Hanim Goren, 45, was giving evidence against her husband, Mehmet, for the third day when she turned to challenge him over his part in her daughter's killing a decade ago.
45岁的哈尼姆·戈伦正在为指控其丈夫梅米特而作证。她面朝其丈夫，质问其他在十年前女儿被害事件中的行为，这已经是第三天了。
我也早就想分手了。
Motorola had about a quarter of the global handset market four years ago, in part thanks to its successful and ultra-slim Razr phone.
摩托罗拉在4年以前拥有全球1/4的手持市场份额，部分要归功于它成功的超薄刀锋手机。
NASA supported this work 12 years ago as part of the rebuilding of the Hayden Planetarium so that we would share this with the world.
NASA支持这项工作在12年之前是作为重建海登天文馆的一部分，于是我们也将与世界分享共同分享它的成果。
Lights were restored to Monrovia's street corners just months ago as part of an international effort to help Liberia rebuild.
蒙罗维亚的街灯是几个月前刚刚修复的，是国际社会帮助利比里亚重建努力的一部分。
Mr Thomas says: “A lie told 20 years ago to get a job can become part of the liar's reality.
托马斯表示：“一个在20年前为得到某份工作而撒下的谎，可以变成说谎者现实生活的一部分。
I joined the team a year ago as an adviser, charged with recruiting charities to be a part of the site.
我一年前以顾问的身份加入这个团队，主要负责招募网站的慈善机构合作伙伴。
"All this paper shows is that Neanderthals lived somewhere in the Caucasus about 40,000 years ago," said Finlayson, who did not take part in this new study. "Doesn't mean they went extinct then."
“这些文件显示的只是40 000年前尼安德特人在高加索的什么地方生活着，”没有参加这项新研究的芬雷森说：“不等于他们那时就走向灭绝了。”
Three years ago he dropped plans to order new ships. Now he is scrapping part of his 176-strong fleet.
三年前，张荣发就停止了订购新船，如今他正在丢弃长荣176艘船中的一部分。
In any breakup, there is this moment when a person who was a part of you just an instant ago becomes a surrealistically familiar stranger.
任何决裂，都有那么不是滋味的一刻，刚刚还是你另一半的人突然很奇怪地就变成了非常熟悉的陌生人。
In the past two decades, Jews have called it the City of David, a part of what thousands of years ago was the ancient Jewish capital.
过去二十年来，犹太人将这里叫作大卫城，那是几千年前古代犹太人首都的一部分。
For the most part, downtown Dar was built long ago, and its low-slung concrete buildings, long exposed to the moisture of the tropics, have taken on a musty shade of gray.
达累斯萨拉姆市中心的大部分建筑年事已久，低矮的混凝土建筑物长期暴露在热带的湿气中，呈现出灰暗的发霉阴影。
A few years ago, he explained this view — and this is part of why he's the Greatest — saying, "Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams — they all have different names, but they all contain water."
几年前，他阐述了这个观点——这是他之所以“最伟大”的原因之一——他说：“河流、池塘、湖泊和小溪——名称虽各不相同，但都包含着水。”
Now a photography teacher at the foundation, Pacheco was part of the first group to take the workshop five years ago.
而帕切科现在则是在基金会工作的摄影老师，五年前，他曾是摄影工作坊第一批学习小组中的一员。
Time Warner Cable (TWC) was, until a couple of years ago, a part of big-media veteran Time Warner; now it is in the other corner of the ring, keen to prove its tech chops.
时代华纳有线（TWC）数年前，还是老牌传媒巨头时代华纳的一部分，而今却站到拳击场另一角，急于表现自个的技术实力。
Evan Dore, a shaggy-haired native of San Francisco, remembers driving through this part of Colombia four years ago with his brother, Ryan, in a 1981 VW bus.
长着一头篷松头发的圣弗兰西斯科人伊万·多尔仍记得四年前和他的兄弟瑞恩驾驶一辆1981产的VW大巴车驶经哥伦比亚的这座城市。
Long ago, when the western part of the United States was still a wilderness, a young boy called Kit, not yet twenty years old, went from his home in the East to learn about the new country.
很久以前，美国西部还是一片荒野，一个年轻的男孩，名叫基特，还不满二十岁，从东部的家乡来到这里，要了解这个新的国家。
Long ago, when the western part of the United States was still a wilderness, a young boy called Kit, not yet twenty years old, went from his home in the East to learn about the new country.
很久以前，美国西部还是一片荒野，一个年轻的男孩，名叫基特，还不满二十岁，从东部的家乡来到这里，要了解这个新的国家。
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