Here the landscape seems unaltered; a rock outcrop caught the southwest sun as it had done long years before; the olive trees were lifting, glinting, now as then.
这里的景色依旧，而那块突出的岩石遮住了西南面的太阳，和很多年前一样。橄榄树仍然摇曳婆娑，发出点点亮光。
I am always thinking that, during the long years before Watt invented the steam engine, the human beings were relying on biomass energy and other renewable energies.
我时常在思考，在瓦特发明蒸汽机之前很长的时间中，人类就是依靠生物能和可再生能源存活的。
Before long, on the lonely road, where he had come and gone for 20 years, grew up a lot of little flowers, in all seasons endlessly.
不久，在这条他来来回回了20年的孤独的路上，长出了许多小花，四季不绝。
They view the intervention as a return to the official paternalism that prevailed before the aborigines won their long battle for land rights 35 years ago.
他们认为这种干预制度是家长式制度的回归，35年前土著人获得土地权利，而之前家长式制度十分风行。
Even long before then-in less than a billion years-it'll warm up enough to raise our average temperature and cause a runaway greenhouse effect, boiling our oceans.
甚至早在此之前——在不到一亿年后——它就会热到足以升高我们的平均气温，导致温室效应失控，煮沸我们的海洋。
Couples who split seem to recognize their marriage isn't working long before they get to a landmark anniversary. Most had divorced within eight years of their wedding.
分开的夫妻似乎在远未达到具有里程碑意义的周年庆之前就认识到婚姻过不下去了。大部分的离婚出现在婚姻的前八年中。
Twenty-five years ago, his father, after a long day of musing in his armchair, had said the same thing, his final verdict before he swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills.
二十五年前，他父亲在扶手椅里沉思一整天后，也说了同样的话，这是他吞下一瓶安眠药之前作出的最后结论。
Our solar system is about 4.5 billion years old, but the galaxy is much older; there were stars and planets around long before Earth even existed.
我们所在的太阳系已经存在了约45亿年，但银河系的历史要早得多；早在地球形成之前，银河系就已经存在了恒星和行星。
These identical chromosomes were found some 300 million years ago in reptiles, long before mammals arose.
这些同卵双胞胎是大约三亿年前在爬行动物身上发现的，远远在人类出现之前。
But Li isn't the only person with a house full of pets - he's still got a long way to go before he beats ha Wenjin, who has adopted over 1, 500 stray dogs and 200 cats over the years.
然而李宗文并不是唯一一个养了一屋子宠物的人，他要想打败哈文进还有很长的一段路要走。这些年来，哈文进收养了超过1500条流浪狗和200只流浪猫。
We are alike, Melanie, loving the same quiet things, and I saw before us a long stretch of uneventful years in which to read, hear music and dream.
梅勒妮，我同样钟爱宁静的生活。那时候我看到的是，多年的平淡生活就在脚下展开，我们可以去读书，去欣赏音乐，去梦想。
"Ideally you should date for a couple of years before engagement — and not just long distance," she says.
“理想化的情况是在你订婚前约会好几年- - -当然不要太长，”她说。
It now looks like bird flight was made possible by a whole string of such exaptations stretching across millions of years, long before flight itself arose.
现在看起来，似乎是在上千万年的时间跨度中，将类似的功能变异整个串联起来才使得鸟类获得了飞行的能力。
Bill Gates has been talking about this product for years, long before it ever had a product name.
在这个产品有名字之前，比尔·盖兹就已经把它挂在嘴边好几年了。
Mr Mandela said that he had argued in favour of breaking the taboo surrounding the disease for years, long before he knew that his son was suffering from Aids.
曼德拉先生说，早在得知儿子患有艾滋病之前的数年间，他已号召人们打破有关禁忌，公开谈论艾滋病。
I'd been in Dali 20 years ago, long before Chinese were tourists in their own country.
我在20年前来过大理，那时的中国人还很少外出旅游。
At the end of October the central bank cut rates for the first time in seven years, from 0.5% to 0.3%, and another cut looks likely before long.
十月末，日本央行施行了七年以来的第一次降息，利率由0.5%降至0.3%，估计不久还会再次降息。
The discovery suggests meat was on the menu far back in our evolutionary history, and long before the arrival of the first human species, Homo habilis, 2.3m years ago.
这一发现表明在我们的进化史上，其实很久以前就开始进食肉类，而且比230万年前第一个人种能人（Homohabilis）出现的时间还要早很多。
Except these bones were from a Nubian mummy buried 1,600 years ago in Sudan -- long before scientists discovered tetracycline, in 1948.
但这些骨头的来历可不简单——它们来自于1600多年前埋葬在苏丹的努比亚木乃伊，而科学家们直至1948年才发现了四环素。
One day when he was over seventy years old, he was too weak to get up from his bed, and before long, he left this world.
他满七十岁后的一天，虚弱得卧床不起，不久，便去世了。
Calculated in the terms Confucius set for us in learning, those of us who have been learning English for ten years still have a long way to go before reaching the time to be established.
若以孔子志学的时间推算，我们学习英语10年，也没有什么了不起，还没有到而立之年呢。
For years I've been saying that the days of radio are numbered (long before, actually, I realized that the days of newspaper were numbered).
最近几年，我一直都说广播的美好时光要过去了(实际上，很久之前，我就意识到报纸就要遭此命运)。
This all supposedly happened about 4.4 billion years ago, long before there was any life on Earth to gaze up and see the strange sight of dual moons.
双月撞击被假定发生于距今44亿年前，距地球上出现生命还有很久，没有任何生物会仰头凝视双月辉空的奇异画面。
When I decided to start a web design company 7 years ago I approached my 14 year old son to be involved in it, and it wasn't long before my eldest daughter became one of my star salesmen.
当我七年前决定创建一个网页设计公司，我让我14岁的儿子参与了，在这之前不久，我最大的女儿成为我的一个明星销售员。
The young Californian emulated5 the great Jesse Owens 48 years before to win the 100m, 200m, long jump6 and sprint relay7, and was the true track star of the Games.
这位年轻的加利福尼亚人重现了杰出的杰西·欧文斯48年前的壮举，将100米、200米、跳远和短跑接力赛的金牌尽收囊中，成为本届奥运会田径场上真正的明星。
But the truth was I had ended a long-term relationship more than a year before because my boyfriend of 13 years did not want to have children.
其实我原是有男朋友的，我们的关系都维持了13年之久，可他坚持不让我生孩子，一年多以前只好分手。
They can stay there for up to 20 years, although Armajaro hopes to have taken profits long before that.
不过Armajaro期望能在20年内就能从中获利。
They can stay there for up to 20 years, although Armajaro hopes to have taken profits long before that.
不过Armajaro期望能在20年内就能从中获利。
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