两名幸存者受困二十分钟后才被解救出来。
Two survivors were cut free after being trapped for twenty minutes.
我那时才二十出头。
二十年后，他和孩子们取得了联系，那时他们才二十出头。
Twenty years later, he got in touch with the children, who, by then, were in their early twenties.
只有最大的男孩和十八、二十岁的年轻姑娘才没有挨鞭子。
Only the biggest boys, and young ladies of eighteen and twenty, escaped lashing.
但直到二十世纪初，建筑声学才正式成为一个科学领域。
But it was not until the beginning of the twentieth century that architectural acoustics became a scientific field.
新屏幕格式的引入被推迟了四分之一个世纪，而颜色尽管在接下来的二十年里被用于特制产品，它也是直到二十世纪五十年代才成为一种常态。
The introduction of new screen formats was put off for a quarter century, and color, though utilized over the next two decades for special productions, also did not become a norm until the 1950s.
这位老太太说："自从去年夏天我参加了这个麻将小组后，我只赢了一次，一共才二十美元。 直到上星期，我才忽然省悟到，我一直在受那三个人的欺骗。"
Since I joined the majong team last summer, I've won only once for just !0.
二十分钟前我们才点的菜啊。
“先生，还要等二十分钟才吃药哩，”她开始说。
It wants twenty minutes, Sir, to taking the medicine, 'she commenced.
可怜的人儿，他才二十二岁，就挑起了家庭重担！
Poor fellow, he was only twenty-two—and to be burdened with a family!
直到二十世纪，年轻人以真实姓名或相对匿名情况下和陌生人约会才变得普通。
It wasn't until the twentieth century that it became normal for young people to pair up with strangers, in real or relative anonymity.
二十年前，只有单位才拥有小轿车，私人是无权买的。
Twenty years ago, cars were owned only by organizations; private individuals couldn't buy them.
直到二十世纪，围绕着空中花园的一些不解之迷才被揭示出来。
It wasn't until the twentieth century that some of the mysteries surrounding the Hanging Gardens were revealed.
他抬头看看我，这时我才发现原来他是个年轻的小伙子，也就是十几岁，或者顶多二十岁出头。
He looked up at me and I finally saw how young he was. He was a teenager if not a teen or he had to be in his early twenties.
二十分钟才查出他们的营业时间？
Wife:Twenty minutes just to find out what their business hours are?
他退休了，可他才大约35岁，最起码还可以再工作二十年。
He was about 35. He could have worked for at least another 20 years.
那时候法雷尔才二十多岁，他和一个旧货店的老板联手，在伦敦的西肯辛顿区开了一家公寓出租的代理。
Still in his early 20s, Farrell joined forces with the owner of a junk shop to start a flat-letting agency in West Kensington, London.
有人告诉一位跑步选手，有一个男孩被飓风卷走，遗体到二十天后才在一处湖泊中被发现，也许就是我跑步经过时曾感觉非常美丽的那个湖泊。
One of the runners was told about a boy who was swept up in the tornado and found dead 20 days later in a lake. Probably a lake I ran past thinking "that's a lovely lake".
直到二十世纪中叶人们才认识到这种生活在沙漠的浅褐色孤独的昆虫是与蝗灾中的红和黄色蝗虫同种。
Only in the mid-20th century was it realized that the light brown solitary desert-dwelling insect was the same species as the red and yellow locusts of the plagues.
世界人口花了25万年才在大约公元1800年达到了十亿，之后又花了一个多世纪（1927年）达到了二十亿，再32年达到三十亿。
It took 250, 000 years to reach 1 billion, around 1800; over a century more to reach 2 billion (in 1927); and 32 years more to reach 3 billion.
直到开始有意地问好，我才意识到二十四年来，问候妻子和其他家人的次数是多么少。
I never realized how infrequently I greeted my wife of 24 years, or the rest of my family, until I started doing so deliberately.
石油和煤炭等自然资源也是直到二十世纪才被发现。
And resources such as oil and coal weren't discovered there until the 20th century.
这个月发生在通往北京的高速路上的交通拥挤一度超过一百公里，以至于所引发的交通僵局持续了十一天直到八月二十六日星期四才神奇地消失。
One snarl up this month along a highway leading into Beijing was at one point over 100km long and left traffic gridlocked for eleven days until it mysteriously vanished on Thursday August 26th.
如果你只做销售，弄清楚这个特别的工作只提供给前二十名给出答复的人，而且要在规定时间内提交才算符合要求，这样一来，这个工作的含金量就更重了一些。
If you are in sales, letting people know that a specific offer is only available to the first 20 people who respond by a certain date will make the offer appear more valuable.
她写那篇文章才花了二十分钟，她侥幸赢了作文比赛。
She had only spent 20 minutes writing her essay. She won the writing contest by a fluke.
然而，首个较严肃的源代码管理解决方案直到二十世纪七十年代才出现。
The first serious source code management solutions were not available until the 1970s, however.
这些公司说明青年企业家能成就非凡伟业：印孚瑟斯的7个创业者在创业时都才二十几岁。
These companies have demonstrated that young entrepreneurs can succeed mightily: the seven founders of Infosys were in their 20s when they set the company up.
这些公司说明青年企业家能成就非凡伟业：印孚瑟斯的7个创业者在创业时都才二十几岁。
These companies have demonstrated that young entrepreneurs can succeed mightily: the seven founders of Infosys were in their 20s when they set the company up.
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