"You have had a decade or more in Africa of very slow economic progress in the nineties.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

They usually talk about it as the "lost decade," where Japanese banks were not liquidated but they were not really in business.

他们在谈论它的时候称之为“垮掉的十年“,在这十年里，日本银行并没有破产,但是他们也没有真正在做生意。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It's in this decade, in fact, that we have the first newspapers.

事实上，在这十年里，我们有了早期的报纸。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

However,Asia gained more than two million hectares a year in the last decade.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

Now think of another product in American history that doubled every decade for four decades, and then imagine that that product became the country's, without question, absolute largest export.

思考下在美国历史中有没有另一种产品曾,有如此辉煌的成就,那么这个产品将毫无疑问地,成为美国最大的出口产品

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But that is changing. In the past decade the number of cyclos on the city's streets has declined sharply.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

I think that in the next decade we will probably know how these cells actually work and the ear catches up to vision smell and taste in that regard.

我还相信，未来的十年中,我们也许能探明这些细胞的机理,赶上视觉，嗅觉和味觉,这些领域的研究。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

The last major disruption to European aviation followed the September 11 attacks in the United States almost a decade ago.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

The world has changed since then, and in the last decade or so, India and the United States have become closer, economically as well as politically, so I think it's definitely a warmer relationship.

而后来世界格局发生了改变，在最近几十年，印美关系亲近许多，不论是经济上还是政治上来说，因此我认为印美关系良好。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

After a police crackdown, JI members were convicted of several deadly bombing attacks in Bali and Jakarta earlier in the decade.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

I want to quote Martin Seligman, who talks about precisely this idea: "In the last decade psychologists have become concerned with prevention.

我想引用Martin，Seligman的话，他说过这样一句话：,“在过去的十年,心理学家关心的都是预防的问题。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

In the past decade an average of almost 400 events each year have met the U.N.criteria for a natural disaster.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

His first treatise, a book called De Cive, or De Cive, depending on how you pronounce it, On the Citizen, was published in 1642, and it was a kind of draft version of Leviathan that was published almost a decade later, again in 1651.

他第一篇论文，叫De，Cive的书，意思就是《论人》,1642年出版，这也算是《利维坦》的草稿版本,而《利维坦》几乎在10年以后，1651年才出版。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Indian Kashmir has been wracked by a two-decade-long separatist insurgency, although levels of violence have sharply dropped in the lpast five years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

That's in the one decade of the teens.

迁移持续了十多年

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Even before this oil leak, BP's safety policies were in doubt following major accidents in Alaska and Texas in the past decade.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

But Russia itself has no worse loss for the United States right now could find ways to keep us so tight down in the Middle East for a decade that we could do nothing else.

俄罗斯现在还没有对美利益造成太大损害,有办法,让我们紧紧围绕在中东问题上,在十年内我们只有束手无策。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

This will provide crucial clues to what caused the crash - India's worst in more than a decade.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

If you had five slaves and a good piece of land in Alabama in 1820, you might very likely have fifty slaves and a hell of a lot more land a decade later.

820年,如果你在阿拉巴马州,拥有五个奴隶和一块肥沃的土地,十年后你很可能就会拥有五十个奴隶,以及更多的土地

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Phyu Phyu Aye,a Burmese refugee who's lived in the United States for a decade,teaches sewing, but also advises her students on many cultural issues.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Even after a decade-long decline in illegal logging,Ritter says, there's still a long way to go.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

The senator is the first U.S.member of Congress to visit Burma in more than a decade.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Charles Taylor is on trial for his alleged role in Sierra Leone's decade long civil war.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Eight years after the end of a decade-long civil war, people will talk publicly for the first time of atrocities committed in their communities.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

They are coming in when they are symptomatic, which is usually after a decade of infection.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

But the West is not responsible for the destruction of the Zimbabwean economy over the last decade,or wars in which children are enlisted as combatants,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

She bought it after living alone in an apartment for more than a decade.

VOA: standard.2010.08.07

"And they created roughly 70 percent of all new jobs in the past decade."

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

"For me,the best health news of the previous decade is the fact that the long overdue influenza pandemic has been so moderate in its impact .

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

weather agency reporting that this decade is likely to be the warmest on record and 2009 the fifth warmest year since record keeping began in 1850.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09