Scientists know that some of the Bristlecone pines in northern California are also more than four thousand years old.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

We have been seeing financial technology advance in recent years and this advancement of technology has brought us some problems.

我们看到了金融技术在近几年的发展,但是这种科技进步,也给我们带来了不少问题

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I'm just making some kind of living in what I've been doing the last four years.

我就是在用我这四年学到的东西养家糊口。

幸福的定义 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Studies show that some American Robins are appearing in their nesting areas two weeks earlier than thirty years ago.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

And the history of human rights ; for some people's gonna start thousands of years ago; And for many people was going to start in the Enlightenment.

人权的历史,对一些人来说几千年前就开始了;,而对很多人而言则是在启蒙运动时发端。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Four years ago, the labor agency estimated that more than twelve million people were in some form of forced labor.

VOA: special.2009.06.08

There was a student in this class some years ago who was dying.

若干年前，有个上这门课的学生,将不久于人世。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And some lower-paying jobs require only two years of college, or even a technical education program in high school.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

In a letter in late 1861 from the front, "Will indeed settle the question, for some years at least, as to whether union or secession, the Constitution or rebellion, shall triumph.

在一封1861年年底来自前线的信中,"会解决问题,但至少需要数年,不管是联合还是独立,宪法抑或是起义,终将有一方胜利

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

A new study says women's rights have gained some ground in Arab Gulf states since a similar study completed five years ago.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

Some years ago, when I was a graduate student, I was at Oxford in England and they had men's and women's colleges. They weren't yet mixed and the women's colleges had rules against overnight male guests.

很多年前，我在英国牛津读研究生时,他们有男校和女校，当时还没有合并,而女校有禁止男客过夜的规定。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

These were some of the questions Charles Darwin asked himself over years of research in botany,zoology and geology.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

I think... I'm hopeful that there will be some action in the next coming years

我认为……我相信在接下来几年内人们会采取行动，

喜欢环境法课程 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Through the years, John Lewis worked with some of the biggest names in jazz,including trumpet player Miles Davis.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

We did a study using the Framingham data ourselves several --some years ago where we were interested in the issue of weight cycling.

几年前我们用弗明汉研究的数据做过研究,我们对体重循环这个问题很感兴趣

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Some festivals, like the one in Adelaide,Australia, are very large and have been going on for many years.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

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

Some of her best work was written in the four years between eighteen fifty-eight and eighteen sixty-two.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Sometimes it takes 4 or 5 years in order to get some level of competency.

有时候它需要4到5年才能达到一定的水平，

学第二外语的时候 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The solar water heater described here is based on a design developed some years ago in Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

It probably won't even in exist in fifty years but it will be bought by some other company and it will still have value and will still be going up.

也许50年后公司不再存在了,但它可能会被,别的公司收购,股票就还有价值,并仍可能升值

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

By some estimates,non-Hispanic whites will become a minority in the United States in about thirty years.

VOA: special.2011.06.13

And I'm very interested in what happened in the French suburbs two years ago; in fact, I wrote an instant article on it for an encyclopedia because some of the work I'd earlier done was about why French suburbs and European suburbs are different than American suburbs.

我对两年前,在法国郊区的事很感兴趣,其实我当时就给一个百科全书,写了一篇文章,因为我以前研究过,为什么法国和欧洲的郊区,与美国郊区有这么大的差别

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

These were some of the most important economic reforms the nation had seen in many years.

VOA: special.2010.09.30

I lived in Europe for almost 4 years and I would say not just in some ways, but perhaps in all ways, we have done that.

我在欧洲生活了将近4年，我想说,不止是在一些方面，而或许是在所有方面，我们做得都好于欧洲人。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Today we present the first of two programs about some of the most famous people who lived in the American West many years ago.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

So I imagine in the last 5 years you had a really kind of go through your own process of integration in some way of what has come of this both personal and public reflection.

所以我想在过去的5年你一定,在某些方面上对自己和,公共的反应上经过了,一定的融合的过程吧。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Most agree it is ancient. Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than one thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

Way back in nineteen-eighty-two, we did a study on this, and then I'm going to show you some similar studies that have been done in subsequent years to show you how much the error is.

回到1982年,我们做了一个这样的实验,你们将看到一些类似的实验,是在随后几年中做的,向你们证明误差有多大

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Also,in Darwin's time, the age of the Earth was estimated only in the millions of years too short a time some said for evolution to work.

VOA: special.2009.12.01