His last full-time job, as a merchandise buyer and product developer, ended four years ago when his employer went out of business.
他的上一份全职工作是商品采购和产品开发,四年前他的雇主倒闭了,他的工作也随之结束。
I went through my midlife crisis about four or five years ago, when I was forty.
在我40岁时,我经历了中年危机。
Once every three or four years, when conditions are right, the lake is covered with the pink birds as they stop flight to breed.
每隔三四年,条件适宜时,湖面上就会布满火烈鸟,它们停止飞行开始繁殖。
When she was found off the coast of California four years ago, the dog, was skinny and fragile.
这只狗四年前在加利福利亚海边被发现的时候,瘦骨嶙峋,身体虚弱。
When Winston is four years old, the foster family must return it to the training center.
温斯顿四岁的时候,寄养家庭必须把它送回培训中心。
"When you work with someone for four years as I did, and you work closely, you do build a friendship and I became friends with him," the prime minister said.
“当你像我一样和某人在一起工作了四年,而且是一起紧密地合作,你们当然会建立一种友谊。我与他是朋友,”首相说。
When your deadline is two years out, you feel less of an urgency to deliver and take decisions than when your deadline is four weeks out.
当您的最后期限是两年以后时,那么比起最后期限是四个星期以后的时候,您会感觉交付和做决定都没那么紧急。
That limit was far more than it actually spent last year, but less than it spent in four of the last seven years, when farm prices were lower.
这个限额比其去年实际发放的补贴额要多得多,但却比过去七年中四个年度的补贴额少,当时农产品的价格还比较低。
When complete in four years, the instrument will be shipped to an observation perch in Chile's Atacama desert.
经过四年建成后,这套设备将被运载到位于智利阿塔卡马沙漠的观测高台。
And she had been wonderful to me in my first four years, when she taught me to read and count, clean my plate, and wash my hands.
在我生命的头四年里,她对我很好,她教我识字、数数、清洗我用过的餐盘,帮我洗净双手。
"I felt like [I wasn't a proper actor] for about three or four years, and then when I was about 17, I really started to take it seriously, " says James, who still occasionally takes acting lessons.
詹姆斯说,“有那么三四年,我觉得我不是一个合格的演员,直到我17岁,我才真正开始把这事放在心上。”
Four years later, questions about his health returned when he appeared at a company event looking gaunt.
4年之后,当他出现在公司发布会上,身体憔悴,他的健康问题引发人们的担忧。
Elizabeth Roman (not her real name) had been head of marketing at a professional services firm in New York for four years when she fell out of favor with her boss.
ElizabethRoman(化名)曾在纽约一家职业服务公司任市场部主管,她在工作四年后失宠于老板。
Are you the four people who I met when I was eleven years old?
你们是我在11岁时遇见的四个人吗?
When [researchers] looked at a group over four years, 25% had changed their attachment style.
研究者对一群人观察了4年多,25%的人改变了他们依附的类型。
If you wait three or four years, how old will you be when your hypothetical future kids graduate from high school or university?
如果你在等个三四年的话,那你假象中的孩子高中毕业或者大学毕业的时候你自己都多少岁了呢?
His family moved to Vienna when he was four years old, and though he often claimed he hated the city, he lived there until it was occupied by Germany in 1938.
当他在四岁的时候,他的家庭搬到了维也纳,虽然他时常宣称,他厌恶这个城市,可是他却依旧住在那里,直到该地在1938年被德国占领为止。
That is what we committed ourselves to do when the Round was launched four years ago in Doha.
这是四年前我们展开多哈回合谈判时,立意要达到的工作目标。
Once when they were all sitting there, the little grandson of four years pushed some pieces of wood together on the floor.
后来有一天,老人的儿子和媳妇正坐在那儿吃饭,四岁的小孙子在把地上的碎木片拾掇到一起。
This is a more than threefold increase from four years ago, when only 7% were considering it.
而四年之前只有7%的人在考虑这个问题,数目增长了三倍之多。
For a decade, Zou followed his advice, winning the 48-kg national weightlifting title in 1990 when she was 19 years old and pocketing four other national championships.
十年里,邹春兰遵循他的建议,在1990年赢得48公斤级全国举重冠军,那年她19岁,已经把另外的四枚全国冠军头衔收入囊中。
One of my few vivid recollections of early childhood has to do with a winter morning when I was four years old.
在我早年儿时为数不多的几个记忆中,最栩栩如生的一件事是与一个冬天的早晨有关。那时我才四岁。
When Barack Obama met George Bush for the first time four years ago, it proved an unhappy encounter.
当巴拉克·奥巴马四年前首次和乔治·布什会面时,那次会见被证明是一次不愉快的遭遇。
Iqbal Masih was sold to a Pakistani carpet factory when he was four years old as collateral on a loan his parents had taken out to pay for their eldest son's wedding.
伊拜尔·马西是一个巴基斯坦男孩,四岁时父母为筹办大儿子的婚礼将他作为贷款抵押卖给了巴基斯坦的一家地毯加工厂。
The couple used the same surrogate mother four years later when they went on to become fathers to Orlando, seven, who will also be christened at the service.
四年后,巴里和托尼再次要求同一位代孕妈妈为其生下了第三个孩子,就是今年七岁、也将受洗的奥兰多。
When I was about ten years old, four older friends and I decided to check it out.
我十岁那年,四个比我大几岁的朋友和我决定去那个公墓瞧瞧。
When I was about ten years old, four older friends and I decided to check it out.
我十岁那年,四个比我大几岁的朋友和我决定去那个公墓瞧瞧。
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