This is compared to half of students who had looked for a job by this time two years ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

And several years later these two graduate students at Leiden by the name of Goudsmit and Uhlenbeck proposed that the electron in fact spins.

几年之后,两个莱顿的学生,古德米斯特和乌伦贝克,提出电子其实是在自旋的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

I did have a friend who was beat up by about twelve or thirteen kids who were all between ten and eleven years old,

我有个朋友曾被十二三个孩子殴打，都在十岁和十一岁之间。

大城市是否危险？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It probably comes from an expression used for many years by people who fix parts of cars and trucks.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

Suddenly, we have evidence, thirteen or fourteen hundred years earlier, that people were reading this stuff and, by and large, it's a pretty constant textual tradition.

因为突然间，我们有了证据，证明1200或1400年前就有人，读着这些经文而且总的来说，经文一直延续了其文本传统。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Many of the lakes around the Grand Tetons were formed millions of years ago by slow-moving sheets of ice.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

There's something else called quasi-magical thinking, which was a term coined many years later by Eldar Shafir and Amos Tversky.

第七,准神奇式思考,这个术语是多年后,由埃尔德·沙菲尔和阿莫斯·特沃斯基提出的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The author says Lead Belly's contract with the Lomaxes' prevented him from being represented by anyone else for five years.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

You've probably been surrounded for years now by bytes and kilobytes, and megabytes and terabytes, and the like.

也许你已经习惯使用,字节，千字节，兆字节，兆兆字节。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He says looking back thousands of years can help researchers look forward by understanding how a disease changed over time.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

It takes so long that by the time the spaceship comes back, 100 years will have gone by.

去了很久，以至于宇宙飞船回来的时候，100年都已经过去了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But by the time he was thirteen years old, he was winning against players two times his size and age.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

You konw, the earth is gonna be burnt up by the sun one of these thousands of years.

在未来几千年中的某一年,地球会被太阳燃成灰烬。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

The current version of the law, signed by George W.Bush eight years ago,is known as the No Child Left Behind Act.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

Now we'll play a passage of Mozart-- a symphony by Mozart here that he wrote at the ripe old age of nine years.

现在我们要放的这个片段来自莫扎特-,这首交响曲是莫扎特在九岁那年写的。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

In South Korea, President Obama and President Lee Myung-bak discussed a free trade agreement signed by their governments two years ago.

VOA: special.2009.11.21

And another five, or seven, or eight years went by, and the treasurer job became even too big of a job, and he became in charge of investor relations.

几年以后，财务主管负责的工作也很多了，他就开始负责投资关系。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play "Othello."

VOA: special.2010.05.23

By your estimation, how many more years before we will see Afghan National Army and the police force in enough numbers to stablize the country?

根据您的估计，还要多少年,才能有足够的阿富汗国民士兵和警察,来维持这个国家的安定？

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

His Democratic Party of Japan ended more than fifty years of nearly continuous rule by the Liberal Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Milton has just returned home after seven years at the university, a university education so generously financed by his father who was actually now 70 years old, and John Milton, Jr.

弥尔顿在7年的大学学习结束之后回到家中，他父亲如此慷慨的资助他完成了学业,而此时弥尔顿的父亲已经70岁了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But ten years later, a similar accusation by another boy led to a criminal trial which began in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

But first of all I wanna welcome you to the Inner Core and I want to say just by introduction how inspiring it has been to work with you over these last years since I've been here. You were part of the group that hired me and I thank you so much for that.

首先，我想欢迎您来到人性讲堂,我想说,仅仅为介绍之便,自从我来到普林斯顿大学以来,近年来跟您的合作是多么的激励人心,当初雇用我的小组里，您正是其中一员，非常感谢您。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And,the World Health Organization says asthma rates are increasing worldwide by an average of fifty percent every ten years.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

Interestingly enough, ten years ago somebody found photos taken by this Parisian of the siege in the Commune in the back of the Hotel de Ville; they were found ten years ago, they had survived.

令人颇感惊奇的是,在十年前,有人发现了由巴黎人所拍的,公社在市政厅后被围的一些相片,它们于十年前被发现,居然得以留存完好

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Scott Brown won a seat in Massachusetts that had been held by Democrat Ted Kennedy for almost fifty years.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

The best work on this has been done by Elissa Newport and Sam Supalla who have studied people who have been in the United States for many, many years like 30, 40 years and seeing how well they have come to speak English.

在这方面最佳的研究,是由伊莉萨·纽波特,和萨姆·苏普拉所进行的,他们研究了在美国生活了,三四十年以上的人们,探究了这些人们讲英语的流利程度

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He finished the book by writing at night during his two years of service in the United States Navy.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

Suppose the planet were hit by a comet-- this happened--something like this happened sixty-five million years ago, so it could happen again.

假设这个星球被一颗彗星击中-,这样的事，大约六千五百万年前,发生过，所以它还可能再发生。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I'm not comforted by the thought that I will still be around 50 years from now, if the thing that's me doesn't have my personality.

我对“我还会存活50年只是那个我，并不带有我的人格“一事并没觉得宽慰。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选