Two lectures in Mandarin by Guru Chen on Pureland were transcribed long years ago and published as a book twice in the past.
两篇陈上师有关于净土的国语演讲在很多年前曾笔录，并曾出书两回。
Long years ago, sometimes it seems many lives ago, I was at Oxford listening to the radio programme Desert Island Discs with my young son Alexander.
多年以前，有时候回想起来，好象是多生多世以前，我在牛津同我的儿子亚历山大一起收听广播节目《荒岛唱片》。
The treaty does little to make the European Union any simpler or more transparent, two supposed goals when the negotiations began eight long years ago.
该条约几乎没能简化欧盟决策过程，也没能增加欧盟透明度。而达成这两个目标正是八年前开始谈判的初衷。
To see his roof tiles pillaged and his windows boarded up (though he died long years ago, in 1987) was to gaze at wreckage and think of les neiges d’antan.
房顶的瓷砖不见了踪影，（鲍德温早在1987年就去世了。）
Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially.
许多年前我们同命运订下了约会，现在时辰已到，是我们实现誓言的时候了，不是全部或完全实现，但是绝大部分实现。
What could it mean?Was it once part of some fashionable lady's dress long years ago?Perhaps a mark to show that the wearer was a famous person, or someone of good family or great importance?
它代表什么?它是多年前某位时髦女士衣衫上的一个装饰吗?或许这是一个标志，表明佩戴者声名显赫，或是有良好的家室背景，抑或地位不凡?。
I am sure, it was a song sung by the animals of long ago and have been lost to memory for many years.
我敢肯定，这是很久以前动物们唱的一首歌，而且多年来已被遗忘。
Nashi played fish for many years, but long ago, he might have played treble saxophone in a ballroom band in Istanbul.
纳希打了很多年的鱼，但是在很久以前，他也许在伊斯坦布尔的一个舞厅乐队里吹过高音萨克斯管。
Fifty-seven feet long and up to nine tons, spinosaurus started poking his head around the early Cretaceous some 100 million years ago.
57英尺长，9吨重，棘龙在大约1亿年前的白垩纪早期就开始四处活动。
Recent evidence favors a rival to the long-standing theory that the Americas were colonized 11,000-12,000 years ago by people migrating south from Beringia along a midcontinental ice-free corridor.
最近的证据支持了一个与长期存在的理论对立的观点，该理论认为，在1.1万至1.2万年前，美洲是由从白令海峡沿中大陆无冰走廊向南迁移的人殖民的。
A 3-kilometer-long bridge was built in our hometown three years ago.
三年前我们家乡建了一座三公里长的桥。
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。
The Pont du Gard is a huge aqueduct half a mile long that was built nearly two thousand years ago.
加德桥是一个长达半英里的大型输水渠道，大约在两千年前建造而成。
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。
This is a relatively new thing, which began only a few years ago, for as long as I can remember.
如我所记，这是一个几年前才出现的新兴事物。
Even a 300-year-long drought around 4, 200 years ago made little impact on the mountain's ice fields.
甚至在约4200年前，一场长达300年的干旱都几乎没有影响到该山峰的冰原。
Salt paved the way for modern civilisation; it was used to preserve vegetables and meat as long as 4,000 years ago.
盐铺就了现代文明的道路；早在四千年前，它就被用来为蔬菜和肉类保鲜。
Salt paved the way for modern civilisation; it was used to preserve vegetables and meat as long as 4, 000 years ago.
盐铺就了现代文明的道路；早在四千年前，它就被用来为蔬菜和肉类保鲜。
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。
EMILY DICKINSON, who was born nearly 200 years ago, has long been an enigma.
艾米丽•迪金森诞于近两百年前，迄今仍是谜一般的女子。
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。
The integrations happened as long as 40 million years ago, the team reports today in PLOS Pathogens.
这样的病毒集成远在四千万年前就发生了，这个科学小组今天在《科学公共图书馆：病原体》中做出回应。
The creature was about 20 feet long and lived 78 million years ago.
该恐龙的体长约为20英尺（6.1米）左右，其生活年代则在距今7800万年前。
Mr Putin told delegates that the two men had reached agreement on who should hold which post "a long time ago, several years back".
普京告诉他的团队这两个人已经就谁有资格占据这个”很久以前，几年之后“的职位达成一致。
Many of the standard writing practices utilized in the current education system have long roots hashed out many years ago.
关于标准写作练习在现代教育体系中的应用的讨论早在多年前已开始。
Here I was, totally lost, in my home country, in a State where I lived for 4 years not that long ago, my residence then being only about an hour's drive from this spot, and nobody speaks my language.
我现在是彻底迷了路，而且就在我的祖国、就在我不久前刚刚生活过4年的州。更有甚者，当时我住的地方离这里其实只有一个小时的车程，而这里居然就没有人会讲我的母语。
Jake: How long ago? A few months or a few years?
杰克：多久以前？几个月还是几年以前？
But if you go back, 20 years ago or 25 years ago, it didn't really exist in Stanford long field.
但如果你往回想，20年或者25年前，在斯坦福中确实没有人对此进行研究。
But if you go back, 20 years ago or 25 years ago, it didn't really exist in Stanford long field.
但如果你往回想，20年或者25年前，在斯坦福中确实没有人对此进行研究。
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