Long ago up north on the Island of Berk, the young Viking, Hiccup, wants to join his town's fight against the dragons that continually raid their town.
很久以前在北方博克岛上，维京少年小嗝嗝想加入到镇上与龙战斗的队伍中去，此前那些龙持续不断的袭击他们的城镇。
I used to smoke, but I gave up a couple of years ago.
我以前抽烟，但几年前就戒掉了。
Up until a few decades ago, our visions of the future were largely—though by no means uniformly—glowingly positive.
直到几十年前，我们对未来的看法大体上还是积极热切的，尽管不完全是一致的。
You see I bought this personal stereo at your shop three days ago, and I'm afraid it hasn't really matched up to what I was told about it.
你看，我三天前在你们店里买了这台立体声音响，但它恐怕和你告诉我的不太一样。
I started with Hoover 26 years ago in sales and rose up through the ranks.
我26年前加入胡佛公司作销售，而后一步步晋升。
A cup of rice which cost thirty cents a few weeks ago is now being sold for up to one dollar.
几周前价值30美分的1杯米如今卖到了1美元。
She gave up teaching three years ago.
三年前，她放弃了教学工作。
I used to smoke but I gave up two years ago.
我过去抽烟，但两年前就戒了。
Glick had a bad accident two years ago and had to give up farming.
格利克两年前遭遇一次严重事故，不得不放弃务农。
I split up with my last boyfriend three years ago.
我和前任男友在3年前分手了。
He fought with the urge to smoke one of the cigars he'd given up a while ago.
他克制自己的烟瘾，不去想刚才没吸的那支雪茄。
Among consumers, only 18% are aware that ecofashion exists, up from 6% four years ago.
在消费者中，只有18%的人意识到生态时尚的存在，相比四年前的6%有所上升。
Among consumers, only 18% are aware that eco-fashion exists, up from 6% four years ago.
在消费者中，只有18%的人意识到生态时尚的存在，这一数字相比四年前的6%有所上升。
Two years ago, I made up a band.
两年前，我组建了一个乐队。
Fifty-seven feet long and up to nine tons, spinosaurus started poking his head around the early Cretaceous some 100 million years ago.
57英尺长，9吨重，棘龙在大约1亿年前的白垩纪早期就开始四处活动。
Moments ago, he got up to carry my bag for me and went into the cold open air.
片刻之前，他站起来替我拿包，走到寒冷的户外。
I did break a bone in my foot playing football a long time ago but that's all healed up now.
我很久以前踢足球的时候确实摔断了脚上的一根骨头，不过现在已经完全好了。
Some time ago, Disney even put up their "10 new rules for being a modern princess".
前段时间，迪士尼甚至提出了“成为现代公主的10条新规则”。
在很久以前，我就长大了。
Sailors took note of this long ago, and came up with a saying: "The farther the sight, the nearer the rain."
水手们很久以前就注意到了这一点，并想出了一句谚语：“看得越远，雨越近。”
Three years ago, when the clean-up started, garbage was everywhere, but this year, the teenagers had to hunt for garbage.
三年前，当清理工作刚开始时，垃圾随处可见；但今年，青少年们不得不主动去寻找垃圾。
Four years ago, Joel Kline gave up his job as a magazine editor to become a freelance copywriter for advertisements, but now he had money trouble.
四年前，乔尔·克莱恩放弃了杂志编辑的工作，成为了一名自由广告撰稿人，但现在他遇到了资金问题。
I started exercising regularly two years ago and went from 253 pounds to a healthy 160 pounds and that is the only thing I did not give up halfway.
两年前，我开始定期锻炼，体重从253磅降至健康的160磅，这是我唯一没有半途而废的事情。
You'll never guess what happened to me! A couple of weeks ago, I decided to take up yoga.
你绝对猜不到我发生了什么事！几周前，我决定开始练习瑜伽。
这泉水早就干涸了。
Brigida had seen Deta walking up the footpath a short while ago and soon they guessed what had happened.
布丽吉特刚才看见迪蒂走在小路上，没多久他们就猜到发生了什么事。
我很久以前就放弃了。
If Mr. Candidate was not as patient as an angel, he would have given up teaching her long ago.
如果凯迪达特先生不是像天使一样有耐心，他早就放弃教她了。
As long ago as 1982, researchers came up with something called the CFQ—the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire.
早在1982年，研究人员就提出了所谓的CFQ 的概念，即认知失败问卷。
One of the dullest boys at a village school, more than thirty years ago, went up to repeat his lesson one morning; and, as usual, did not know it.
三十多年前，在一所乡村学校里，有一个十分愚笨的男孩，一天早上他上去复习他的功课；和往常一样，他都不懂。
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