Just a few years ago the picture was very different.
几年前的情况就大不相同。
We know, because of what we know about similar ancient desert lakes, we know that the lakes didn't last very long, from a few months to a few years on average.
而我们知道，出于我们对类似的古代沙漠湖泊的了解，我们知道这些湖泊并没有持续很长时间，平均从几个月到几年不等。
A bionic eye with very clear pictures could be just in a few years away.
一种能显示清晰图像的仿生眼可能在数年后问世。
When I was researching this for a study a few years ago, I visited a couple of these typical limestone caves, and they were all very wet, you know, from streams and rivers.
几年前我做这项研究时，我探访了其中几个比较典型的洞穴，它们都很潮湿，你们也知道这是因为小溪和河流的缘故。
But, after a few years I've gotten so used to such things and they're no longer very hard to do.
但一些年之后，我已经习惯于这些行为方式，他们也就变得不那么难了。
At the very least, a flotilla of unmanned spacecraft could be headed Moonward within the next few years, with goals that range from lofty to goofy.
至少在未来几年中，一些无人飞船会向月球进发，尽管他们的目的有所不同。
The notion of a Firefox smartphone browser seemed implausible only a few short years ago, but today it's very much a reality.
Firefox智能手机浏览器的概念在短短几年前还有些难以置信，现在已经非常真实。
Look at the amount we scored in the last 10 years and you can see we scored a few, even last year we had a very good striking force.
只要看一下我们在过去十年里的进球数就会发现，我们进球并不是很多，即使是在我们攻势那么猛烈的去年，我们也没有很多的进球。
A few years ago I read a very touching article in a magazine.
几年前我在一本杂志上读到了一篇非常感人的文章。
Until a few years ago, when oil wealth began to spread through the nation, life for most people was very tough.
就在几年以前，当石油财富刚开始在这个国家流淌的时侯，大多数人的生活还是非常艰难的。
Very few people take steps to prevent a repeat attack, but he says most kidney stone sufferers will form another stone within 10 years.
很少有人采取措施，防止结石重复发生，但他说，大多数肾结石患者，在10年内将“孕育”出另一块石头。
Having been in a similar situation a few years ago when we moved to Australia without knowing a soul, I would have found the responses to a post like this very encouraging.
由于曾经几年前在不知道当地文化的情况下搬到澳大利亚，而使自己陷入了相似的困境，我个人觉得这些回复都十分振奋人心。
I have a health practitioner friend who was very supportive to me a few years ago, and to date I have referred her to dozens of new clients and that's my way of thanking her.
一些年前,有一个保健医生,我们合作的非常好.至今,我已经向她提起了她的几十名新客户,这就是我感激她的方式.
One of the gravest problems is the way a number of very large procurement programmes are bunched together over the next few years.
最严重的问题之一就一系列非常大的采购案都在未来几年中被捆绑在一起。
But in the past few years mainstream politicians, retired military leaders and academic strategists have begun to share the same goal, albeit with a very different idea of how to get there.
在过去几年中，主流政客、退役军官和战略学家开始有着共同的目标，虽然对如何达成这一目标各持已见。
Yet a strategy of closing outlets opened during a period of overexpansion, introducing healthier options and improving customer service got McDonald's out of a very similar crisis a few years back.
一个关闭在过度扩张时期开办的代销店的策略使得麦当劳摆脱了与几年前非常相似的危机，该策略引进更有助于健康的食品选项和提高顾客服务质量。
I've been coming in China for a few years for personal reasons. On my very first day, I knew this is where I wanted to live.
几年前我因为一些个人原因来到了中国，而我到上海的第一天就知道这是我想生活的城市。
Fortunately, a few years later both America and the Soviet Union became interested in using solar power in space, where its advantages became apparent very quickly.
值得庆幸是，几年后，因为太阳能动力在太空的优势十分明显，美国和苏联同时对应用它的兴趣大增。
But a few years later, I was speaking to Edward Razek, who casts the models for Victoria's Secret and who knows Tyra very well.
但是几年后，我在和爱德华·拉扎克谈话时，这位是给给《维克多的秘密》寻找模特，也很熟悉提拉本人。
But then only a few years ago the Chinese vendors' network equipment was seen as not very exciting.
但短短几年前，中国供应商的网络设备不也是一样没什么亮点吗。
The fact that the Festival has not invited an artist two years in a row except for very few selected jazz/blues giants also shows the level of the potential that people find in Oshio.
事实上，除了那些极少被选中的爵士/布鲁斯大腕，音乐节从未连续两年邀请（同）一位音乐家，这也显示出人们所发现押尾桑潜力的水平。
Palestinian cities look very different today than they did just a few years ago.
比起就在几年前，今日的巴勒斯坦城市看起来已经非常的不同了。
"The gulf between our 15-year-olds' reading abilities and those from other countries is stark -a gap that starts to open in the very first few years of a child's education", said Mr Gibb.
吉布先生指出，“我国的15岁少年阅读能力与其他国家的差距是非常明显的——这种差距在儿童教育的早期就开始出现了。”
Fortunately I have a brother who has always been very fashion-conscious, and he'd take me in hand every few years when my fashion sense got too out of touch with reason and social acceptability.
所幸的是我有个老哥，总是保持着前沿的时尚意识，每隔几年，当我的时尚感脱节到不能为社会和理智所接受的时候，老哥就来拯救我了。
You may remember that peg was very controversial a few years ago.
你可能还记得，数年前，人民币汇率问题备受争议。
As more than one person remarked, in a self-congratulatory but also truthful way, the very fact that such a meeting is going on demonstrates progress that few would have expected ten years ago.
不止一个与会者半是祝贺半是认真地说，会议能够召开本身就表明环保事业的进步，这在十年前几乎没人能够想到。
I also met Kirk Douglas very briefly a few years ago. I told him how he'd had a huge effect on me.
我还跟道格拉斯短暂见过一面，我向他讲述了他对我有着多么巨大的影响。
Just a few years ago it would have been very difficult to get DB2 experience on your own if you did not have access to a corporate server or mainframe.
在几年前，如果您从未接触过企业服务器或大型机，那么很难靠自身获得DB 2经验。
Just a few years ago it would have been very difficult to get DB2 experience on your own if you did not have access to a corporate server or mainframe.
在几年前，如果您从未接触过企业服务器或大型机，那么很难靠自身获得DB 2经验。
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