So in 2004 he sold his Lapeer business for $757, 000, then took a few years off to spend time with his four kids.
因此在2004年，他以757000美元将自己在拉裴尔的公司卖掉之后，专门花了几年时间和他的四个孩子一起生活。
But, he estimated that pinpointing any Earth-like planets is still a few years off-near the end of the Kepler mission as it stands.
但是，他估计定位这样一个行星还需要几年时间——知道开普勒计划的末期。
The potential treatments and USES that may stem from the CRISPR method still remain a few years off-hopefully long enough to solve who gets the final ownership on the core technology.
而源于这项技术的潜在治疗手段和应用，估计仍需要几年时间才会成为现实，但愿在此期间，我们能够解决这项核心技术的归属问题。
The thrill wears off after a few years of marriage. You'll see.
那股兴奋劲儿结婚几年后就会慢慢消失，你等着瞧吧。
MrsLacey: "Marriage was hard work when we set off but we stuck at it and, a few more years down the line we are happier than we've ever been."
莱西太太说：“当我们一踏入婚姻，这就是一项辛苦的工作，但我们陷进来了，而且一些年过下来，我们比以前更快乐。”
A few years ago, as he was returning up the mountain path, four men jumped him, attempting to push him off a ledge.
几年以前，有一次他正沿着山路上山，突然四名男子跳将出来，要把他从悬崖边上推下去。
Its call for a better balance between individual autonomy and state oversight might have seemed off-centre just a few years ago.
本书呼吁在个人自主和国家监管中寻求更好的平衡；放在几年前，这种思想还算偏离重心。
Just a few years ago, a patient like Kellie would have been written off.
就在几年前，像凯莉一样的病人会被院方放弃。
There have been a series of pirate attacks off Somalia in the last few years, with vessels from supertankers to cruise ships being targeted.
这几年在索马里有一系列海盗袭击案件，从巨型油轮到观光邮轮都被攻击过。
I believe you're better off if you try to focus on one direction at a time. Spend a few years working on becoming the best and then spend a few years exploring the world.
我相信一次关注其中一个方面比较好，先花若干年成为一个领域的专家，再花上若干年探索更广阔的世界。
Only a few years after Darwin's return, Hooker was off on his own adventures, an ambitious slingshot around Antarctica aboard HMS Erebus and Terror.
达尔文回国后仅仅几年，胡克就开始了自己的冒险之旅，乘坐埃里布斯与恐怖号勘察船开始踏上去往南极洲那雄心勃勃的征程。
A few years ago, a portion of these deposits was being diverted into property when the housing markets in a number of cities began to take off.
几年前，在许多城市的房地产市场开始腾飞时，部分银行存款流入房地产领域。
She made the sacrifice to stop teaching for a few years to stay home with our two youngest babies, and they are so much better off for it.
她牺牲了几年的教学工作时间，只为在家好好抚养我们两个最小的孩子，他们长得非常好！
Honestly, can Robert Mugabe, who spent a few years in Ghana himself, proudly stand up and say that his country has been better off without the presence of his British former colonial masters?
坦白地说，罗伯特·穆加贝在加纳待了几年后还会自豪地站起来说他的国家要比英殖民者在的时候更好吗？
One of the key trends is that the number of new bidders is still increasing and many of them are not afraid to buy something that, a few years ago, would have been considered a little off-beat.
如今重要的趋势之一，是新参与竞拍的人数仍在增加，其中许多人都不怕购买一些几年前还被认为有点土的汽车。
She also feels that, in her profile, she has to shave a few years from her age and leave out the fact that she has a doctoral degree, having concluded that men are often scared off by it.
她也感觉到，在她的简介里，她不得不把年龄少写一些，并略去她的博士学位，因为男人往往会被这些吓跑。
The voice message left for one alleged mistress asking her to “take your name off the phone” could not have spread so rapidly to millions of people only a few years ago.
就在几年前，“把你名字删掉”这样的电话留言还不能在短时间之内传到百万人民耳中。
the grey chair is a replication of some famous designer’s work, i wish i knew who. we picked it up from a really nice couple off of craigslist a few years ago.
灰色的椅子是仿制品，是几年前我们在craiglist分类广告上结识的一对夫妻那里得到的，其设计来自一位著名的设计师（我也想知道那设计师谁）。
Where, a mere 20 years or so ago, just a few hundred tourists would set off towards the South Pole, more than 40, 000 inquisitive souls journeyed to the southernmost point on Earth last winter.
约在二十年以前，只有几百名游客会前往南极，而去年冬天，有四万多名好奇的精灵远行至地球最南端。
There are plenty of people who get laid-off from their 9 to 5 day job and end up making millions in a few short years of self-employment.
有许多人从朝九晚五的工作中下岗，可最后他们经过几年的自主创业赚钱成百上千万。
A few years back, according to Roman A. Chikachov, a game warden in Blagoveschensk, Russian hunters took to passing off the more common wild boar gallbladders as bear gallbladders.
据Blagoveschensk的一位猎场管理员Romana . Chikachov所说，几年前，俄罗斯猎人们用更常见的野猪胆来仿冒熊胆。
The Chicago exchanges easily saw off Eurex, a German-Swiss derivatives-exchange company, when it took them on a few years back.
当芝加哥的交易所在几年前与一个由德国和瑞士合办的衍生品交易公司—欧洲期货与期权交易所(Eurex)竞争之时，它们轻松地将其击退。
BT sold off its own mobile network a few years ago, so it buys airtime [5]from Vodafone.
因为英国电信早在前几年已经廉价出售了他自己的移动网络平台，所以他要从沃达丰公司购得漫游通话平台。
They keep teams together longer (it's a fallacy that team productivity drops off after a few years), and they even move great teams together instead of picking off stars and moving them.
他们让团队成员在一个团队更久(所谓的团队工作效率几年后会下降纯属谬论)，他们甚至会让一些优秀的团队整体迁移，而不是从中选取几位明星员工进行迁移。
Learning how to operate it - and fly planes off it - will take a few more years to master, our correspondent says.
学会如何操作航母，还有如何在航母上起飞飞机，将花费几个月时间掌握。我们的记者说到。
Look around - a few years ago you started off on the road with these people, knowing them as boys and girls, wandering around campus, dazed and overwhelmed.
回顾一下吧吧——就在数年前，你同这些人刚刚踏上征程，你只知道他们就是一群清纯的少男少女，游荡在校园之中，茫然而又不知所措。
Debt is such a burden that it's worth scrimping for a few years, and even delaying graduate school, to pay off at least some of the debt.
债务是一个沉重的负担，因此好几年时间的节衣缩食，甚至推迟念研究生的计划来偿还至少部分的债务，都是值得的。
Focused, disciplined, the co-founder of a multibillion-dollar company, he's the kind of person who decides to lose 10 pounds, does it in a few months, and keeps the weight off for years.
他是数十亿美元公司的一位目标明确、讲行为纪律的合伙人，属于那种决定减肥10磅后几个月中去减肥之后数年里体重都不会增加的人。
Each hair contains its own growth period, grows after 6-8 years and stops growing for a few months, then sheds off.
每根头发都有它自己的生长周期，生长6-8年后，停止生长几个月，然后脱落。
Reasons: (expression of disdain) that there is nothing to show off, and tell you that either I was born a few years later than in Einstein's theory of relativity is I invented it.
理：(不屑的表情)那有什么好炫耀的，告诉你，要不是俺比爱因斯坦晚出生几年，相对论也是俺发明的。
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