And it had put to rest the great problem of slavery, which had troubled the nation for so many years.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

Milton, who had died in 1674, had established himself as a great English poet within twenty or so years of his death.

弥尔顿死于1674年，死前花了20多年,奠定了他伟大英国诗人的地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And your friend is saying, "Oh, you know, I remember those years, they were so great."

你的朋友说，“哦，你知道么，那些日子我都记得，真是美妙的时光啊！”

I used to 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He was sworn-in as president seventy-six years ago during the Great Depression -- the worst economic crisis in the country's history.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

It's great idea with a lot of hard work and then you work at it for year, two years, three years, four years, five years, six years, seven years, eight, nine, 10.

勤奋的工作，一年两年，三年,有或者更多，甚至10年，是很好的想法。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Two years ago, scientists discovered more than one hundred corals in the Great Barrier Reef and on a reef near northwestern Australia.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

Now it's still going to be another twenty-five years before Milton writes the great epic, but Milton will no longer express the same degree of anxiety about under-preparation to write the great epic.

距他成为真正的史诗诗人,还有25年，但是弥尔顿不会再轻易表现出,关于创作史诗毫无准备的同等的焦虑了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But she later remembered with great pleasure her childhood years in the home where she was born.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Some of the folks that we hired very early on have gone on to great, important positions. One of the guys we hired a couple of years after starting is still on my executive team.

我们早期的员工中有一些,已经晋升到高层，很重要的位置上了,一个员工是,公司创建几年后招进来的，现在在主管团队。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

"The Great Sphinx of Tanis" from ancient Egypt dates back over four thousand six hundred years.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

Every ten years a great man Who paid the piper?

青史册册,人才辈出,各领风骚,谁人相助

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

A few years later, Isabella and Jack Gardner bought three major paintings by great artists.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

But as you know already, from what you've read, this has come into great dispute in recent years and I'll just say a little bit about the dispute before we get through today.

不过就像你们在课后阅读中读到的那样,他的说法近年来遭到了越来越多的质疑,我们在继续今天的讲解之前,我会先讲讲人们对于他理论的质疑

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Senator Beveridge said the Pacific would be of great importance in coming years.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

Now we'll go back further than 10,000 years to talk about the history of food, but in those--but at 10,000 years ago several very important changes happened that have shaped to a great extent what our modern relationship with food is.

让我们回到一万多年前,来讨论饮食史,但是,一万年前,发生了一些很重要的变化,这些变化很大程度上塑造了,现代人类与食物的关系

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Only a few years before, millions of buffalo lived on the Great Plains.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

And so I can--a great deal after all, 20 years-- I can give you a pretty good idea of what it's like to live in France, even if I didn't move there for the rest of my life without ever coming back."

所以我可以,毕竟二十年还是有很多,关于住在法国是什么样的感觉,我可以给你很好的描述,就算在我的有生之年我再也不会,搬回法国

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

About twenty-four-thousand years ago, it rained a great deal in the area.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

The only history that you would have had fifteen years ago would have been those funds that produced great returns, so it's all identified after the fact.

你只会看到在这15年的历史数据中,所有对冲基金都有着极佳的回报,这都是事后调整确认的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The tests showed it was four hundred years older than the Stonehenge formation in England -- and a thousand years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

Here's the editor, great editor of the publisher Faber & Faber, thirty years later, or more, surrounded by books, ; the cultural arbiter of the English speaking world; T.S. Eliot at sixty.

0年后，这就是费伯-费伯出版社的大编辑，被成堆的书籍包围着，被视为英语语言世界的文化标尺;,这就是60岁的艾略特。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Over at competitor General Electric, actor Ronald Reagan -- later the fortieth president of the United States -- and often referred to as the Great Communicator, was for many years an effective commercial spokesman every week on the GE Theater.

VOA: special.2011.07.21

For next time, make sure that you will have read at the very least Milton's great poem, and he wrote it when he was only twenty-one years old, "The Ode on Christ's Nativity."

下一讲，同学们至少要读完,弥尔顿的一首伟大诗作，他写这首诗时才21岁，《基督降生颂歌》

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Their classroom discussions are often about great works of literature by authors who lived thousands of years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

I say this now with great confidence but ten years ago this story, which all the Greeks agreed too, agreed upon in every respect, that the temple of Apollo was built right on top of this, and underneath the floor of the temple was this little room where the gases came up, where the priestess sat, where all of this came up.

我现在敢在这里夸夸其谈,但是十年前,当时的希腊人,对这个传说都是深信不移的,阿波罗神庙正好建在它上面,神庙地板底下正是气体出现的小屋,女祭司也坐在这里,一切都发生于此

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

After all,they've known each other for over 40 years, meeting for the first time in a band led by blues great Muddy Waters.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

This is one the questions I get a lot from people who just staring out and say "Wow, technology has changed so much last five years, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years." Are all the great companies created?

这是我从很多只是向窗外眺望，然后说,“科技在近5年，10年，15年亦或是20年里,发展如此飞速“的人那儿得到的一个问题，所有伟大的公司都是创造出来的吗？

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

The great coach at UCLA was 99 years old and would have been 100 in October.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

Also a nearby volcano erupted four years ago,ripping open a crack in the Great Rift Valley.

VOA: standard.2009.12.14

Four and a half years ago, the National Zoo unveiled its new addition to great fanfare.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02