It had been there even before Everett was born.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

Well, I had been there before when I was younger and I didn't really like it.

好吧，我年轻的时候去过那里，但我不喜欢它。

对纽约的印象 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

There had been a half century that had passed since any great modern epic or romance epic had even been produced.

在过去的半个世纪中,没有任何伟大的现代史诗或浪漫史诗出现。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Scientist Cecil Lewis said the human DNA could have been there because people had had contact with the bone.

VOA: special.2011.03.15

They eliminated entire bus lines that had been there for like 50, 60 years.

他们取消了已经存在了五六十年的整条巴士线路。

纽约的公共交通 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

There were no great surprises that night because the winners of the awards had been announced three months earlier.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

From 1641 to 1643, there had been an unprecedented explosion of printing and publishing in England.

从1641年到1643年，在英格兰出现了,空前的印刷出版狂潮。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The Union army there had just been defeated in a battle along a little river called the Chickamauga.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

There is no star where the Morning Star had been or where people have claimed it would be or something.

一颗星也没有,无论是晨星曾经出现的地方或,是人们曾断言晨星会出现的地方

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But among those remaining was a man who had been one of the first people to arrive there.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

Yet, when they did the census of 1872 in Paris alone there were 10,000 less shoemakers than there had been before.

然而,一八七二年仅仅巴黎的人口普查,就少了一万名鞋匠

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Some senators said there had not been such a crowd in the capitol building since the day Clay said goodbye to the Senate eight years earlier.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

And the other countries have, of course, there are many many smaller countries had also been involved in the fighting.

还有其他很多小的国家,也参与了战争。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

There had been few complaints since the Commandments were posted almost twelve years ago.

VOA: special.2011.03.17

There've been over 14 million hits to the site we've had from over 300,000 people and over 3 thousand email messages have been received.

收到了有超过30万人,三千多封电子邮件,这些电子邮件给了我们。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

A tomb had been built there for America's first President, George Washington.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

But whenever we've had a reform era there's been a big issue, or two or three or four.

但每当我们有一个改革的时代,都会存在一个,两个,三个或者四个大问题

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

There had been elections in most of the northern and southern states.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

That line had clearly been crossed and helps explain why it was that in a country in which there weren't ten people who wanted a republic in 1789.

绝对主义和专制主义的区别已经不存在,这解释了为何在这个国家,1789年时只有不到十人想建立共和制

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

DAVID FAULKNER: "For many years, there had been an active campaign against segregated baseball led by Negro newspaper editors and,strangely enough,by the Communist party, which from the middle nineteen thirties on, had actively campaigned against segregated baseball.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

Well, so far we've had two models that have been thrown out to you: From polytheism's worship of many gods there's a natural evolution to henotheism's elevation of one god to a supreme position.

目前，我已经给你们提出了两种模型：,从崇拜众多神灵的多神论,自然进化到一神论,唯一的至高无上的神。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The body said during the weekend there had been a breach of confidentiality and apologized for treating the matter insensitively.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

So, if language seems exhausted because it's always preceding you, everything has always already been said, there's no new plot to be had, the world is full of stock phrases, how do you use them to embody an experience that seems fresh to you?

所以，如果因语言，在你之前就存在，而它就显得枯竭，如果一切都已经被说过，如果已没有新的情节可供创造，如果世界一直充满陈腔旧调，你如何能够用它们,呈现出一个崭新的体验？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There had been indications that the two might meet during the Obama family vacation in Martha's Vineyard.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

In fact, the outcome here, this equilibrium here is for all intents and purposes, the same equilibrium we would have had had there been thousands of firms in the market And had this been a perfectly competitive market.

实际上,这个结果,这个均衡适用于所有的目的和意图,我们将得到同样的均衡,即使市场上有数千的公司,即使这是个完全竞争市场

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

There he found injured people whose clothing had been stripped from their bodies.

VOA: standard.2009.07.17

At this point the study had been undertaken, there had been many, many more trials that had been done on cancer in men than there had been done on cancer in women, so there was a political reason for doing it as well.

研究就是基于这一点开始的,但在完成了的癌症实验中,关于男性的实验,要远多于关于女性的,这样做也是有政治因素的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"There had recently been riots in Morocco due to the cost of wheat going up, so I traveled there to bake alongside Arab women in a large village oven.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

I had been living in Japan for two years prior to meeting her. I'd been over there,

在认识她之前，我在日本住了两年。那段时间我一直呆在日本，

从朋友到恋人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

and I think that since Enron and Worldcom, there had been a lot of regulatory changes

我觉得安然和世通的事情之后，有好多规章调整

美国的会计丑闻 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人