Summer homes, European travel, BMWs — the locations, place names and name brands may change, but such items do not seem less in demand today than a decade or two years ago.
消夏别墅、欧洲旅行、宝马车——地点、地名和品牌也许会有变化，但这类东西在今天被人渴求的程度似乎也不会亚于一二十年前。
Scientists who predicted a few years ago that Arctic summers could be ice-free by 2013 now say summer sea ice will probably be gone in this decade.
科学家几年前就预言，北极夏日冰川到2013年时将会有大量漂浮冰面，这个十年间，此种情形将日益加剧。
Walmart began sniffing around South Africa three years ago, seeking a toehold on a continent where consumer spending power has risen sharply in the past decade.
于是三年前沃尔玛开始转向南非，搜寻商机，企望在这个十年间消费能力猛涨的地方找到立足之地。
For the past three years, the vast cap of shining-white ice covering the Arctic has melted away in summer to an area that would have been unbelievable just a decade ago.
过去三年内，在北极地区白皑皑冰盖已经在夏季大量地消减。
Storey warned in a paper two years ago that rivalries were escalating again after easing in the first half of the last decade.
Storey在两年前的一篇文章中警告到争端问题将在过去十年中的上半阶段再次加剧。
A decade ago, it could take years to obtain a phone line, but now the privatized industry is one of the fastest-growing in the world.
10年前，在印度装电话是个旷日持久的过程，但是现在，实行了私有化的印度电信行业是世界上增长最快的行业之一。
Just in the last five years, new careers in fields like health information technology, cyber security, geospatial systems, these are fields a decade ago didn't even exist.
仅在过去的五年里，像是健康信息技术、网络安全、地理空间系统这些新的职业领域在几十年前甚至不存在。
A popular argument in recent years has been that developing economies are less risky because, unlike a decade ago, they are no longer dependent on foreign capital.
近年一种流行的论调认为新兴国家风险更小，因为他们不像十年前那样了，现在他们不再依赖外资。
In Britain, women marry at 33 on average, and men at 36 - each three years older than the average a decade ago.
在英国，女人的平均结婚年龄是33，男人是36——分别比十年前的平均结婚年龄大三岁。
Just a few years ago, the sport was still in its infancy. The number of female women's tennis events in China has shot up from two to 10 over the course of the past decade.
几年前，中国网球运动才刚刚起步，而在过去的十年中，中国女子网球就经历了从两分到满分的迅速崛起。
Researchers has achieved great progress in the study of plantibody since a decade years ago.
近十多年来，植物抗体研究取得了巨大进展。
Researchers has achieved great progress in the study of plantibody since a decade years ago.
近十多年来，植物抗体研究取得了巨大进展。
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