但很久之前，人们就已经开始准备了。
这听起来有点异想天开，但很久以前，洲际快速航空旅行也被如此认为。
It sounds fanciful. But so too, not that long ago, did rapid and routine intercontinental air travel.
今天的河流有高高的泥泞岸边、沙洲和弯曲，但很久以前并不是这样的。
Rivers today have high muddy Banks, sandbars and bends. But they didn't always look that way.
但很久前，地球表面上10英尺的人类是很标准的尺寸，因为重力远小于现在，可让身体更轻并快捷移动。
Long ago, 10-foot human forms upon the surface of the earth were the norm, and gravity far less of a pull allowing the form to weigh less and move in ease.
如果不是己经习惯了这样的回答，我可能会不大相信她所说的，但很久己经我便己经确信他们看到的的确很少。
I might have been incredulous had I not been accustomed to such responses, for long ago I became convinced that the seeing see little.
他讲了很久，但并没有人真正理解他的意思。
He spoke for a long time but his meaning didn't really come across.
老板答应给员工加薪已经很久了，但什么也没发生。
The boss promised the employees a rise in salary for ages, but nothing has occurred yet.
我想这个问题想了很久，但还是想不出答案。
I have been pondering over this problem for quite a long time but still couldn't puzzle it out.
孩子们谈了很久，但这没有给他们带来什么安慰。
The boys had a long talk, but it brought them little comfort.
我只和我的第一个祖母祈祷过，但那是很久以前的事了，我都忘了。
I only prayed with my first grandmother, but it is so long ago, that I have forgotten.
那是很久以前的事了，但当我坐在沙发上，闭上眼睛，我觉得她就在我身边。
It was so long ago, but when I sit in this sofa and close my eyes I feel she is near.
人们已经庆祝它很久了，但没有人确切地知道它是如何开始的。
It has been celebrated for so long, but nobody exactly knows how it started.
但这是很久以前的事了。
然后，我们将得到一个报告的错误，但这将在实际问题发生很久以后 ―类D 的糟糕实例化。
Then we will get a signaled error, but it will be long after the real problem occurred -- the bad instantiation of class D.
他曾经想过把这个标志挖去，但那是很久以前的事了。在寂静的荒野地，随着时间的流逝，他逐渐忘记了。
He had once thought to gouge it out, but that had been a long time ago, and as time passed in the silence of the Waste, he had forgotten.
有的人被淹死，但更多的在海啸停止很久后才死去。
People drown, but often people perish long after the waves have stopped coming in.
罗恩·保罗：你知道，他本人已经去世很久了，但凯恩斯主义一直存在到现在。
Ron Paul: You know, it’s a long time since he’s been around, but Keynesianism exists.
一枝特别保留的笔为“蓝色狗”预留着，但蓝色狗是很久以前已经绝种了的品种。
A special holding pen was reserved for "Blue Dogs," a breed that went extinct long ago.
那是很久以前的事了，但想想还是够可怕的。
虽然还需解决许多震前困扰海地很久的问题，但这种积极性是可见的。
Such initiatives are sound, even if many are designed to deal with problems that had plagued Haiti long before the earthquake struck.
我曾在我年幼的时候记得歌的调子，但已经有很久记不起来了。
I had known that tune in my infancy, but it had long since passed out of my mind.
一旦我看书我就可以保持一个动作保持很久，但只要一和克莱尔在一起，想保持不动就变得很困难了。
I can hold quitestill for long stretches of time when I’m reading, but sitting for Clare isalways surprisingly difficult.
收音机要用电池，但电池维持不了很久。
我整夜整夜地思考关于爱情和浪漫的问题，但过了很久我还是没能找到答案。
I turned my nightly contemplations to the area of love and romance, but for a long time I didn't have an answer.
但那是很久以前的事了，语法也早就全忘光了。
But that was a long time ago and in the meantime I forgot all my grammar.
实际上，日本银行就这个问题已讨论很久，但仍未做出决定。
The Bank of Japan has had that issue under discussion for a long time ,but it hasn't been resolved yet .
丈夫：亲爱的，我们是可能开了很久了，但并不见得我们迷路了。
Husband: Look honey, maybe we've been driving for a long time, but this doesn't mean that we're lost.
本周三，科学家将公布一项计划了很久但很有争议性的试验的详细情况，该试验旨在探讨通过地球工程学改变地球气候的可行性。
This Wednesday, scientists will publish details of a long-proposed but controversial experiment on the feasibility of geoengineering the planet's climate.
本周三，科学家将公布一项计划了很久但很有争议性的试验的详细情况，该试验旨在探讨通过地球工程学改变地球气候的可行性。
This Wednesday, scientists will publish details of a long-proposed but controversial experiment on the feasibility of geoengineering the planet's climate.
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