He'd spent four and a half years in windowless cells, much of the time in chains.
他在无窗的牢房里呆了4年半，大部分时间是手铐脚镣。
After ten years travelling the world, she felt it was time to put down roots somewhere.
游历世界十年之后，她觉得该是找个地方定居的时候了。
By the time we had made landfall the boat looked ten years older!
等到我们登陆时，这艘船看似已老了10年！
The lease runs for 21 years, and they are committed to seeing out that time.
租约为期21年，他们将信守合同直到期满。
These bonuses will be paid when your savings plan matures in ten years' time.
当你的储蓄计划在10年后到期时，这些红利将会被支付。
The government uncoupled the peso from the dollar yesterday for the first time in 11 years.
昨天政府十一年来第一次使比索脱离美元。
That's the first time I lost my cool in 20 years in this job. This whole thing's getting to me.
那是我干这份工作20年来头一次失去冷静。这整件事让我痛苦不堪。
For the first time in years, she felt in command of her life.
多少年来第一次，她觉得生活掌握在自己的手里。
Time flies, twelve years have gone.
时光荏苒，十二年的光阴又过去了。
In geological time, a million years is recent history.
在地质时代，一百万年属于近代史。
The two events are separated in time by one hundred years.
这两事件在时间上相隔一百年。
十年是一段很长的时间。
Ten years was a long time, Mary thought.
十年真是一段很长的时间，玛丽想。
Temporary extension of two years will guarantee scientists enough time.
暂时延长两年将保证科学家有足够的时间。
This critic generated I think some undue rivalry between ballet and modern dance, and it would take a long time, many years in fact, for the rivalry to calm down.
我认为这个评论家造成了在芭蕾和现代舞之间的一些过度竞争，而且需要很长时间（实际上是很多年），才能平息这种竞争。
They range from a few days for small lakes up to several hundred years for large ones; Lake Tahoe, in California, has a residence time of 700 years.
它们从小湖的几天到大湖的几百年不等；加州的太浩湖有700年的滞留时间。
It's going to be twenty years for you this time.
这次可要给你20年了。
It is difficult to understand how reduced predation would lead to sudden increases in Acanthaster numbers in several places at the same time in specific years.
很难理解捕食减少是如何导致在特定年份的同一时间内，几个地方的棘冠海星数量突然增加。
Consider humans as part of these ecosystems, you've probably heard about water shortages or restrictions on how much water you can use, especially in the summer time, in recent years.
考虑到人类是这些生态系统的一部分，你可能听说过，水资源短缺可能会限制你可以使用多少水，特别是近些年夏天的时候，
Time flew and years later he saw her again.
时间飞逝，几年后他又见到了她。
You could, alternatively, hang onto it in the hope that it will be worth millions in 10 years time.
或者，你也可以把它留着，指望它10年后值好几百万。
At that time they had been courting for several years.
当时他们已经谈了好几年的恋爱了。
I spent five years there and had a really good time.
我在那里呆了5年，过得很愉快。
It was the first time in years that a Japanese manufacturer had not topped the list for imported vehicles.
这是多年来日本厂商第一次未能位居进口汽车名单榜首。
Twenty-five years ago they filled a time capsule and buried it.
25年前，他们装满一个时光宝盒并把它埋了起来。
It took two years for me to get better, during which time he spoon-fed me and did absolutely everything around the house.
我花了两年时间才好起来，在此其间他用勺子喂我进食，并承担全部的家务。
It's the first time a Westerner has been convicted for a drug-related offence in recent years in China.
这是近年来第一次有西方人在中国被判犯有与毒品有关的罪行。
For example, the Long Now Foundation has as its flagship project a mechanical clock that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years hence.
例如，LongNow基金会有一个作为旗舰项目的机械钟，它的设计目的是几千年后仍在计时。
On Christmas Eve in 1994, humans entered a cave in the mountains of southeastern France for what was probably the first time in 20,000 years.
1994年圣诞前夜，人类进入了法国东南部山区的一个洞穴，这可能是2万年来的第一次。
By the time Alexandra was seven years old, she had begun painting with oil paints.
Alexandra七岁的时候，就开始用油画颜料画画了。
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