Engineers said it would cost less to complete the canal De Lesseps had started twenty years earlier in Panama.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

In the next twenty-five years the increased--the anticipated increase in diabetes is supposed to be about 37% in the U.S.

在未来的二十五年中,预计美国的糖尿病患者的人数,将增加37%

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Harvard has residential colleges of the kind and Princeton only had it in the last twenty years.

哈佛大学有住宿学院,普林斯顿是在最近二十年来才建立住宿制的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

On average, rhesus monkeys live about twenty-seven years in captivity, that is,when they live with humans and not in the wild.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

I'm just going to go a little bit further on -Rupert Murdoch bought The Times of London in 1981 that was twenty-seven years ago.

我会讲得深入一点,鲁珀特·默多克在27年前的1981年,收购了伦敦的《泰晤士报》

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But in the last twenty years, H.I.V.and the collapse of the Soviet Union helped raise death rates in thirty-seven countries worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

What is it about the Greeks between the years that I mentioned to you that deserves the attention of people in the twenty-first century?

是什么使得久远的古希腊,会值得21世纪的人们,去关注和研究呢

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Cigarette production in the United States more than doubled in the ten years between nineteen eighteen and nineteen twenty-eight.

VOA: special.2010.12.30

Here's a slide that shows the projected increase in diabetes in the next twenty-five years.

这张幻灯片显示了,未来二十五年糖尿病患者数量增长的情况

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

For almost twenty years, in the nineteen thirties and forties, Fred Allen had a radio show called "Allen's Alley."

VOA: special.2009.03.09

He's born, in fact, twenty years before the American Civil War.

他是在美国内战结束后的二十年出生的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

This group has been growing faster than any of the religious groups in America over the past twenty years.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

It's just this double bind of vocation that's the subject of Sonnet VII, "How soon hath Time." That's the sonnet in which Milton laments the fact that he has turned twenty-three years old and has yet produced nothing that would indicate a shining poetic future.

第七篇十四行诗的主题就是这种职业窘境，“时间过得多快啊，“弥尔顿在这首诗里表达了,对自己都快23岁却没创作出什么,可以显示出他卓越天赋的诗的哀伤。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In one area was a blank canvas that had been waiting twenty-five years for the first line of paint.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

And,it used to be that twenty or thirty years ago you'd say nothing in France works, and everything works in the U.S, and now it's just the opposite,totally the opposite.

而在二十或三十年前,你会说法国一片混乱,而美国一切运行顺利,现在则恰恰相反,完全相反

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Rosalyn Schanzer shows readers the young man who was only twenty-two years old when he left Plymouth,England in eighteen thirty-one.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

One of the real surprising findings in my field over the last ten/twenty years has been that the acquisition of sign languages has turned out to be almost exactly the same; in fact, as far as we know, exactly the same as the acquisition of spoken languages.

过去的十到二十年间,在我的研究领域里最令人吃惊的发现之一就是,各种手语的获得过程,被证明几乎是完全相同的,实际上据我所知,和口语语言的获得过程是完全相同的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Then,within the last twenty million years, movements in the earth pushed the rock upward, forming the Guadalupe Mountains.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

That means that you can go through twenty years of a career on Wall Street and all you've observed is observations in the central region.

这就是说,你在华尔街混了二十年,所有观察值都集中在中心区域

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"Over just the last three years, NHTSAs defect and compliance investigations have resulted in five hundred twenty-four recalls involving twenty-three million vehicles.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

If you collapse data, as we did in this one paper, across all developed and developing countries here's what we're expecting in the next twenty-five years.

如果想改变这个情况,就像这页幻灯片中指出的,改变所有发达国家和发展中国家,对未来二十五年的情况的预期

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The S & P Five Hundred index gained over twenty percent its largest increase in six years.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

That's because it started out that way; when the federal government wasn't involved in those sorts of things and somehow, we never had the in fact, it's talked about--we should-- maybe we'll see it in the next ten or twenty years.

因为从一开始就是分开的,当时的联邦政府还没有介入监管,我们从来没有过...,实际上有一种说法,我们应该,也许10年或20年内,统一监管能够实现

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But rates in the United States have increased by more than one-third in the last twenty-five years.

VOA: special.2009.10.26

Now, of course, there are denominator issues here because we started with a much higher base rate than these other countries, but if you think about the size of the populations there, the number of people who are going to become diabetic in the next twenty-five years is really very frightening.

现在,当然这里存在着分母的问题,我国的增长基数比其他国家要大得多,因为一旦考虑到人口总量,在未来25年成为糖尿病人的人数,就非常非常的惊人了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Reporter Pete Demetriou from KNX Newsradio in Los Angeles also spoke to another man who has lived in the area for twenty-six years.

VOA: special.2011.03.15

It's a little bit of a digression, but one of the things that I've witnessed over the past twenty years is that the leakage of the -the leakage from the system in terms of the returns that go to the owners of capital -leakage has increased enormously.

讲一点稍稍离题的内容,我发现,过去的二十年中,这种损耗,这种减损资本所有者收益所得的,系统性损耗,有相当巨大的增长

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She has announced plans to end the show in September of two thousand eleven after twenty-five years.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

But twenty years ago, in March of nineteen eighty-nine, the tanker ship Exxon Valdez created a huge oil spill along the Alaskan coast.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

They must be at least twenty-five years old, an American citizen for at least seven years and live in the state they represent.

VOA: special.2009.08.14