It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.
我这二十年在你家里，为你的两个女儿服侍你十四年，为你的羊群服侍你六年，你又十次改了我的工价。
A rational person wouldn't buy an ounce of gold for $1,008 today unless he or she was very confident it would be worth at least $1,500 or so in ten years' time, and at least $2,400 in twenty years.
一个理性的投资者不会在现在以每盎司1008美元的价格买进黄金的，除非他或她坚信金价会在10年内至少涨到每盎司1500美元左右，在20年内至少涨到每盎司2400美元。
Twenty-five years since it was first identified, there is still no cure for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
自从25年前正式确定这种疾病以来，对于后天性免疫缺陷综合症仍然没有有效的治疗。
For next time, make sure that you will have read at the very least Milton's great poem, and he wrote it when he was only twenty-one years old, "the Ode on Christ's Nativity."
下一讲，同学们至少要读完，弥尔顿的一首伟大诗作，他写这首诗时才21岁，《基督降生颂歌》。
Twenty years ago, I drove a cab for a living. It was a cowboy's life, a life for someone who wanted no boss.
二十年前，我以开出租车为生。这是一种富有冒险精神的生活，适合那些不想受老板管制的人。
When it was finally broken, the record had stood for 25 (twenty-five) years.
在这项纪录最终被打破之前，它已保持了25年之久。
It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household.
我在你家这二十年，你的母绵羊，母山羊没有掉过胎。
It was twenty years ago that I met him for the first time.
我第一次遇到他是在二十年前。
I was traveling for twenty years in this country. I was staying in thousands of homes, and I saw it continuously: when the husband is not in the house, the wife seems to be very cheerful, very happy.
我周游这个国家二十年，住进成千上万的家中，而我不断目睹：当丈夫不在家，妻子似乎非常高兴、非常快乐。
She told me she had been a ghost for nearly twenty years. It was probably a punishment for her wickedness!
她告诉我她已经做了将近二十年的鬼了。这可能就是对她邪恶的惩罚！
While I was still cherishing the hope that he might be alive, circumstance beyond my control made it impossible for me to continue work into which I had poured my heart's blood for twenty years.
而我依然抱着他可能存活的希望，倾尽心血苦苦寻找了20年，最终，在无法控制的环境的逼迫下，我放弃了努力。
While I was still cherishing the hope that he might be alive, circumstance beyond my control made it impossible for me to continue work into which I had poured my heart's blood for twenty years.
而我依然抱着他可能存活的希望，倾尽心血苦苦寻找了20年，最终，在无法控制的环境的逼迫下，我放弃了努力。
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