McCarthy taught social sciences in public high schools for a few years.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

I worked as a consultant in business for a few years.

我做过几年商业顾问。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But they used to have him on there for quite a few years

但他曾经在队里呆了好几年呢，

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She taught zoology at the University of Maryland for a few years.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

I lived in Asia for a few years.

我在亚洲住过几年。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

He went to school only for a few years.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

My favorite example of this was a few years ago when there was a huge battle for the House majority leader.

我最喜欢的例子，几年前,白宫多数党领袖有一场大的争斗。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

For a few years, the settlement grew.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

And I just enjoy speaking with them about things you fundamentally disagree on. And just for me, I guess, I think we both want to go back in a few years.

我非常高兴和他们聊天,讨论你们根本不同意的事情，对我来说，我们都希望能够几年以后再聚聚。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

A few years ago,some marketing and advertising experts were asked to name the best nickname for an American city.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

If someone's saving for their retirement you better have a lot more than that; $100,000 is only a few years of income even for low-income people.

如果你们一直存钱存到退休,肯定比这数目多多了,10万美元,不过是低收入群体几年的收入

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Yet he tells us Covestor remains a private company after a few years because it is still too risky for most investors.

VOA: special.2011.01.07

Now readers have always seemed to have agreed that Milton's Lycidas is an enormously admirable poem, but for a few hundred years now there has been a controversy over how admirable Milton's Lycidas is, specifically as an elegy.

现在读者们一致认为,弥尔顿的《利西达斯》是一首极其非凡的诗作，但是几百年来，对于这首诗，特别是作为一首悼亡诗,到底有多么非凡一直有所争论。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Within a few years, there was not enough grass for all the cattle, especially along the trails.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

And for better or for worse we've done a lot of damage over the past few years for this stuff.

过去的几年，无论好坏,我们都已经对这个东西造成很大的损坏了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

A few years later, he drew pictures for the first "Little Bear" books, written by Else Minarik.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Here, the relevant thought experiment was suggested by Robert Nozick, a philosopher who died a few years ago, taught for many years at Harvard.

相关的思维实验,由Robert，Nozick提出，一位几年前，过世的哲学家，他曾在哈佛从教多年。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The number of people in the small town of Spencer,Iowa,for example, dropped from eleven thousand to eight thousand in just a few years.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

HIV infection and AIDS is the one that comes first to mind, and is responsible for this slide, I think this is data from a few years ago, 700,000 deaths per year.

IV感染和艾滋病是我们第一个想到的,在这幅幻灯片上也提到了,我想这是几年前的数据了,每年死亡七十万人

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

A few years ago, America's Centers for Disease Control studied deaths linked to carbon monoxide poisoning.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

If it turns out that they're money good, you get your interest and you get $1 for every $.85 that you invested in a few years.

如果市场证明它们确实是优良资产,那么几年后你就能获取利息,每85美分可以获利1美元利息

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He says it took a few years for Ug99 to show its destructive power.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

I was at a party a few years ago for a friend of mine and we ran out of food so he said, " "I'll just go pick up some food."

几年前我参加了为朋友举办的一个派对,我们把所有的东西都吃光了,我的这个朋友说，“我去弄点吃得来“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Over a few years of exposure, the increase for your risk of developing cardiovascular disease...

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

In fact for readers of Paradise Lost, and this has been an experience now for a few hundred years, it does often seem as if there were some mysterious life force, a pulsating through Milton's dense and driving lines of unrhymed, iambic pentameter.

实际上，《失乐园》的读者们，几百年来一直都有这种体验，确实，似乎真有一种神秘的生命力，一种脉搏，贯穿在弥尔顿密集，强劲，没有韵律，长短不一的五音步格诗之中。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

When Cabot Oil & Gas offered a lease for the natural gas under their land a few years ago, saying that it might drill a single horizontal well nearby, they weren't worried.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

He qualifies exhumations as a humanitarian act that allows families to close what he calls the circle of pain and mourning in which they have been caught for a quarter of a century, and says it was unthinkable as recently as a few years ago that investigations into war crimes would have been allowed in this country.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

But at the same time,Admiral Mullen, who is Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed confidence that with a solid Afghan partner, an increase in U.S.forces can bring a measure of security and stability to Afghanistan within a few years, as the 2007/2008 "surge" helped provide an opportunity for Iraq to move forward in a more secure environment.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04