He had already been learning the piano for a year, and when he went blind, his mother knew this would be the only way he would make any money in the future.
他已经学了一年钢琴,当他失明的时候,他的母亲知道这是他将来赚钱的唯一途径。
People had been starving to death for more than a year already.
而早在一年之前,就已经发生饿死人的惨剧了。
The Da Silva twins were already well-known before signing for United at the age of 17 and the club had been seeking international clearance for their transfers a year before that.
达席尔瓦兄弟在17岁加入曼联之前就已经非常有名了,在转会前一年,他们所效力的俱乐部就开始为他们寻找全球买家了。
Indeed, 2006 is already the most profitable year ever for the biggest discount broker, Charles Schwab, which this week announced a 29% leap in earnings in the year to the third quarter.
确实,对于最大的折扣券商嘉信理财(Charles Schwab[font=宋体])而言,2006[font=宋体]年也已经是它最为有利可图的一年。本周它宣布截止第三季度,年度收入已经有了29%[font=宋体]的飞跃。
But she expects worse later in this fiscal year because California’s current budget, which has already cut court funding by $350m, contains a trigger for even more reductions.
但她预期本财年后期的情况会更糟,因为加州已经从财政预算中削减了对法院系统的3亿5千万美元拨款,而且不排除进一步削减的可能。
His work is a reminder that the laser-which celebrated its 50th birthday last year and is already used in medicine for various kinds of surgery-still has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.
去年是激光被发现的50周年纪念,如今它已经被应用于各种手术器械,此时此刻bornhop博士的努力提醒了世界,激光还有许多秘技。
Already a year off from its original release schedule, Thunderbird 3 has also missed its most recent revised deadline, which had been planned for the end of November 2009.
Thunderbird3软件的正式版推出计划截止目前已经拖后了一年左右,而且按照Mozilla的新计划,他们本应于今年11月底推出最新的修改版。
How India will respond to the attack is already shaping up as a central issue for upcoming elections in several states, and for the country's general elections due before May next year.
印度有好几个邦即将举行选举,明年5月还要举行全国大选。如何应对此次袭击已成为选举的中心话题。
In 2005, a time of prosperity and tranquillity, the country’s “fiscal gap” already amounted to 505% of GDP, they calculate, almost 14 times its official net debt for that year.
在2005年的时候,经济繁荣社会安定,该国的“财政空缺”就已经高达GDP的505%。他们算出,这几乎相当于那一年官方净公共债务的14倍。
Many bankers are already braced for lower pay-outs following a volatile year and this month's introduction of tough new European rules on pay.
在动荡不安的一年、以及本月出台的严厉的欧洲薪酬新规定后,许多银行家已准备好迎接较低的奖金。
If the company you work for doesn't already have a social media policy in place with specific rules of engagement across multiple networks, it just might in the next year.
如果您的公司现在还没有制定一项社会媒体政策以及在多个网络之间沟通交流的具体规则,那么它可能明年就会采取这样的举措。
Yet a faulty transmission system has already delayed production for a year – Mr Musk blames a design decision by the first CEO, who left under a cloud late last year.
然而,有缺陷的传动系统已经使生产推迟了一年,马斯克将其归咎为第一任首席执行官的设计决策——这位首席执行官在去年底黯然离任。
She hopes to start teaching her students about the Olympics later this year and already has plans to start a torch relay for her pupils.
她希望能在今年晚些时候开始向学生教授奥林匹克知识,并计划在学生中开展模拟火炬传递。
In Britain a similar technical oddity has led to the 30-year swap spread being negative for a considerable period already.
英国发生相似的技术面的奇怪现象,导致30年期掉期息差在很长一段时间内为负值。
The outplacement industry, which provides such advice to jobseekers, is already gearing up for a bumper year.
为求职都提供类似建议的新职介绍产业在过一年的利润丰厚中飞速发展起来。
And they have already written songs-later this year they may do a full score -for a forthcoming feature-length animated cartoon based on Yellow Submarine.
他们已经完成了后半年的歌曲创作,这是为即将开拍的根据《黄色潜水艇》改编的动画长片制作的音乐。
But the move seems to recognize that at 4.14% for a one-year deposit, such rates are already low relative to China's inflation.
但本轮降息举措似乎是认为相对于中国的通胀,一年期存款利率4.14%的水平已经很低了。
This means that 2009 is already a record year for piracy.
这意味着2009年是海盗创下纪录的一年。
Already the largest market for everything from cellphones to a range of commodities, China surpassed the U.S. last year as the biggest market for cars.
去年,已经是世界手机、多种大宗商品等产品最大市场的中国,一举超越美国成为最大的汽车市场。
This year is a little more than half over, and already it is one for the climate record books.
今年已过半多一点,并且它已经记录在气候名册了。
Australia has already agreed to cut prices by about a third for Japan and South Korea for the next year.
澳大利亚已同意明年为日本和韩国降价约三分之一。
"There has been a rampant increase in South Africa," she said. "Poaching figures for this year have already surpassed the whole of last year."
“南非偷猎日益猖獗,”她说,“今年偷猎犀牛的数量已超过了去年全年的数量。”
Official estimates of life expectancy for 65-year-olds have already increased by over a year for both men and women since Lord Turner's report.
自从特纳勋爵的报告以来,官方估计的目前65岁老人的平均寿命又增加一年。
We've already "paid" for our basic living expenses for the year from working a few months each in 2011.
在2011年我们工作几个月就可以负担起温饱生存花费。
Some of the first research teams have already been preparing for more than a year to run data on Blue Waters.
第一批研究团队已经为在Blue Waters上运行数据准备了一年多时间。
Toyota, for instance, is already capable of producing 800, 000 vehicles a year and expects to lift that to more than one million in a few years.
以丰田汽车为例,该公司在中国已经具备了年产80万辆汽车的能力,它希望几年内能将在华汽车年生产能力提高到100万辆以上。
But Michael Zagurek of Merrimack, N.H., already has decided to use the high-speed trains for a trip he is considering taking to Europe later this year.
计划今年晚些时候到欧洲旅行的迈克尔•萨格瑞克(MichaelZagurek)已打算到时候选择高速列车。
But Michael Zagurek of Merrimack, N.H., already has decided to use the high-speed trains for a trip he is considering taking to Europe later this year.
计划今年晚些时候到欧洲旅行的迈克尔•萨格瑞克(MichaelZagurek)已打算到时候选择高速列车。
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