His first years in the United States were difficult, like those of most immigrants at that time.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

When I reflect on the first couple of years of Baidu's operation, I think there are three things that's very critical.

当我回想百度最初的那几年，有三件事是非常重要的。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

He's a very good player, yeah, but for the first two or three years that he was at United, he hardly played at all.

他是个很好的球员，但是在前两三年，在联队，他基本不上场。

知道朴智星吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Other experts say glass making first started four to five thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, present day Iraq and Syria.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

Well,if hedge funds first became mainstream maybe fifteen years ago, then what are you looking at in terms of history?

如果对冲基金,在15年前就变成主流,那么你会在它们的历史记录中看到什么呢

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Monsanto expects to be ready in 4 years to market its first corn seeds genetically engineered to resist drought.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

This is a course that introduces you to the New Testament literature, but also the history of other material from the very first one hundred years or so of early Christianity.

本课不仅介绍,新约文学，还会介绍其他文献的历史,可以追溯到基督教早期100年左右的时期。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The collision of the Russian and American satellites was the first of its kind in over fifty years of space travel.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

At this time, I also reconnected with my first boss when I was 15 years old.

这个时候，我也再次联系到了我15岁,时第一个老板。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

But her trip to Japan,Indonesia,South Korea and China makes her the first in almost fifty years to visit Asia first.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

What is it about the Greeks between the years that I mentioned to you that deserves the attention of people in the twenty-first century?

是什么使得久远的古希腊,会值得21世纪的人们,去关注和研究呢

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In one area was a blank canvas that had been waiting twenty-five years for the first line of paint.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

And the company grew 80%per year for the first eight years compounded, and 60 % per year for the six years after that, which adds up to tens of billions real quick, as you know.

公司保持百分之八十的年增长,持续了八年，这之后的六年，每年增长百分之六十，正如你们所知，在很短的,一段时间内赚了数百亿。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Monsanto expects to be ready in a few years to market its first corn seeds genetically engineered to resist drought.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

I think it's a remarkable dynamic that Mark started this company in 2004 and that first generation the first nine or ten years of the Internet did not have a Facebook-like company that was thinking through it in a simple way.

我认为马克在2004年开办的这个公司的影响巨大,因为互联网初期的那代人用了九、十年,都没能创办一家像脸谱网一样的公司,能用简单的思维考虑问题。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

He made his own breakfast for the first time in many years, he was still angry with his father.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

It was Iran and Russia and India and that will help the northern alliance And India has opend its first ever overseas base in Tajikistan, north of Afghnastan in recent years.

伊朗，俄罗斯，印度都会帮助北部联盟,印度最近首次打开了,在塔吉克斯坦，阿富汗北部的海外基地。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

It was like the day -- a hundred years later -- when the first American walked on the moon.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

The graph is something I showed you on the first day of class, that over the last hundred years in particular, but what's shown on this slide is over the last 300 years.

第一节课我就给你们展示过这幅图,该图特别地关注了近一百年的情况,但它涵盖了过去三百多年的历史

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Professor Burgess says the first ten years of the twenty-first century are expected to register the most attacks of any ten-year period.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

Think back to the first few years of Baidu.

回想百度最初的那几年。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

The study found that smokers who quit had a seventy percent increased risk of developing the disease in the first six years.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

I have the freedom to pass that person because I like the trend. Suppose I have somebody else who came here with two years of chemistry in high school, got a 95 on the first test, 70 on the second test, failed the third test, failed the final, has an aggregate score of 48.

我能够选择让那人通过,因为我喜欢他的进步，假设另一个同学,学了2年的化学在高中,第一次测试得到95分，第二次70分，第三次没通过，期末考也没通过。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Merry arrived seven years after her mother had her first child and she was quite a Christmas gift.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

Frat life is pretty huge at UCLA for mainly your first 2 years

CLA的兄弟会生活将在你头两年的学生生涯占很大一部分，

大学篮球的人气 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Fewer than one hundred thousand American troops are in Iraq for the first time since the invasion seven years ago next week.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

It turns out that if you start learning a language, a second language is where most of the work's been done, within the first few years of life you're fine.

如果你在出生的头几年里开始学习一门语言,非常努力地学习了第二门语言,那么你一切正常

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

During the first two years of the Civil War, the Union captured several southern ports: Fort Hatteras and Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

The generations of students that are coming to University today have essentially grown up with the Internet. And some of them are the first generation Where the internet have been part of their life in their Formative years. For most of us, the people of my age, The internet came later.

现在进大学的这一代学生,成长在因特网的环境下,一些人是伴随着因特网成长的第一代,网络是他们性格形成期的一部分,然而对我们这个年纪的人来说，因特网是后来才有的。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

See is this in your way "So, the first couple of years I made my own costumes which of course sucked: ... the ghost, the hobo... Then, finally, the third year, begging the parents, I got the Superman Halloween costume.

看看你们看得见不,“于是前两年，我自己做服装，当然不怎么样：,鬼啊，流浪汉啊。,第三年我终于求了爸妈，我得到了超人的万圣节服装。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选