I know that it spans only twenty years, yet I am an old man.
我知道它之跨过二十年光景，但现在我已然是一个老人了。
He told me he was only twenty years old. I think he was pulling my leg.
他告诉我他才二十岁，我想他在开我玩笑。
Poor man, he is only twenty years old, but owing to illness he is as bald as a coot.
可怜的家伙，他只有20岁，可是由于生病，头顶已经光秃秃了。
However, the game itself has not changed in essence since its earliest days, though it is faster, more subtle and more demanding than it was even only twenty years ago.
然而，乒乓由始以来，它的精髓是没有改变的。尽管现在其要求比20年前要苛刻的多。
Palau has only been an independent nation for twenty years and has a strong history of environmental protection.
帕劳成为一个独立的国家只有20年，但在保护环境方面已有长久的历史。
Twenty years on, at ceremonies to commemorate these events, Poland was represented by only a low-level delegation, announced at insultingly short notice.
二十年来，在对此事的纪念仪式上，波兰不甚礼节地发出临时通知，只派出一个低级别的代表团出席。
What has only been two months seems like twenty years.
两个月吗，就像是过了二十年那么长。
Twenty years ago the future of the monastery looked bleak. Only five elderly monks lived there.
20年前这家修道院的前景十分黯淡，只有五位年长的僧人居住于此。
Twenty years ago there were only a couple of car styles in China, and they were ugly and uncomfortable. But the SUV in the magazine AD looked just like the ones I see every day on Texas roads.
二十年前，在中国只有一两种汽车品牌，而且样子很难看，坐上去也不舒服，但杂志广告上的SUV看上去就像我每天在得州公路上所看到的汽车。
Twenty years on, only a few remnants of the barrier remain.
二十年以后，只剩下边卡的一部分还存在。
When I was hired twenty years ago, the job AD required a J.D., although for years now our library's ads for reference librarians have said only that a J.D. is preferred.
二十年前，我找到这份工作时，该工作就要求法学博士学位，尽管现在我们图书馆招用参考馆员的广告说，持有法学博士学位优先考虑。
"Twenty years ago, after the drought, our situation here was quite desperate, but now we live much better," he said. "Before, most families had only one granary each."
“二十年前的旱灾后，我们的处于极其绝望的境地，但现在我们的生活改善很多，”阿里说，“之前，大多数家庭每家只有一座粮仓。”
Twenty years ago, cars were owned only by organizations; private individuals couldn't buy them.
二十年前，只有单位才拥有小轿车，私人是无权买的。
Twenty years ago, he argues, 80% of the knowledge that workers required to do their jobs resided within their company. Now it is only 20% because the world is changing ever faster.
20年前，工人需要的知识有80%是公司内部的，现在这个比例只是20%，因为世界变化得越来越快。
Zora was twenty-six years old when she began high school. But she said she was only sixteen.
当卓拉上高中时，她已经二十六岁了，但她说她只有十六岁。
During these twenty-five years of intense study mathematics and astronomy were only a part, and 'perhaps not the most absorbing, of his occupations.
在这25年高强度的研究中，数学和天文学只是一部分，甚至可能不是对他最有吸引力的事业。
If you live sixty years, twenty years will be gone in sleep, one third, so only forty years are left.
如果你活六十岁，二十年会在睡眠中度过，三分之一，所有只剩下四十年了。
The project started with only twenty women and grew to four hundred fifty women in five years.
刚开始参与这项工程的只有20位妇女，但在五年内已经增加到450位妇女。
Sadly, after over twenty years have passed since the war ended, many can still only vaguely see the contour of that door as if looking through a veil of mist.
让人感到悲哀的是，战争结束20多年来，很多人仍然只看到这扇大门的模糊轮廓，就像是透过薄雾般的面纱去看这道门。
Twenty years ago 26 percent they had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in big business; now, only 16 percent do.
20年前，26%的人对于大财团有很大的信心，现在只有16%保持这样的信念。
I haven't seen much of "Jeopardy!" in the past twenty years, and until last night had only read about Ken Jennings.
我在近二十年里没怎么看《冒险！》，直到昨天晚上我才读到肯·詹宁斯(Ken Jennings)。
My only consolation was the sure knowledge, rooted in twenty-five years of close observation, that she was a lot tougher than they would ever be.
我惟一的安慰来自我对希拉里真正的了解，来自25年近距离的观察，她比他们要坚强得多。
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》。
John roughly. All right, I'm the young guy, I've only been lecturing for twenty-five years.
已经教了三十年的课，John’s，been，lecturing，for，thirty，years，很苦，好吧，我还年轻，我只教了二十五年而已。
John roughly. All right, I'm the young guy, I've only been lecturing for twenty-five years.
已经教了三十年的课，John’s，been，lecturing，for，thirty，years，很苦，好吧，我还年轻，我只教了二十五年而已。
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