The scientists estimate this would have the same climate effect as taking all cars in the world off the road for ten years.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

It's true of Windows, it's true of the Sequel Databases from guys like Oracle, the Google guys were at it for a number of years before that thing really took off.

视窗“系统就是这样，甲骨文公司的关系数据库也是这样，谷歌公司的创立者花了很多年,才让一切走上正轨。

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

I lived on campus for three years, but right now I live off campus.

我在校内住了三年，但现在我住在校外。

住宿环境怎样？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One shows the remains of a dying star four thousand light years away which has thrown off a cloud of glowing hydrogen gas.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

One man in Australia a couple of years ago was under the delusion that his father was replaced with a robot and cut off his head.

几年前一名澳大利亚人由于幻想他的父亲,变成了机器人而将他父亲的头砍了下来

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It is exciting to stand only a few meters away and watch scientists clean the asphalt off a fossil that is thousands of years old.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

After decades of relatively unspectacular growth, compared to the east Asian economies, India's economy suddenly took off three or four years ago, growing at 8% or more a year.

经历了几十年的相对高速发展后，与其他东亚经济体相比，印度经济三或四年前突然开始腾飞,以每年8%甚至超过%,8%的速度增长。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

To earn the one hundred thirty thousand dollars that Clarence Berry took off the ship, that man would have had to work for two hundred fifty years!

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Well, he has a wife whom he loves, Penelope, and he has a son whom he has barely seen because he had to go off to Troy almost 20 years ago to fight that battle and he hasn't been home since.

因为他有挚爱的妻子珀涅罗珀,以及一个由于二十年前,他前赴参加特洛伊战争,而几乎素未谋面的儿子

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

His years of hard work paid off.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

Gets off Scott free in five years when the other guy gets out, he might run into a situation where Yeah, so a short version of that is, it's a different kind of contract.

其中一个跑掉了,但是五年后,坐牢的就会回来报复,对,简而言之,这不是一般的协议

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The boat business fell off in recent years because of the conflict between India and Pakistan over Control of Kashmir.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

You pay every year a fixed amount on your house to the mortgage originator and then after so many-- n is 30 years, typically--you would then have paid it off.

你每年都在你的房子上支付一定数目的偿款,给抵押商然后,数年后,设n是30年,一般来说你已经能偿清贷款了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They deserved to win today." It was the first time in 16 years the NFL's top two teams squared off for the league championship.

VOA: standard.2010.02.08

Al-Zaidi was initially sentenced to three years behind bars, but the term was later reduced, and he was granted additional time off for good behavior.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

And always on display, throughout the years, the clothes - the parade of flamboyant costumes set off by the austere attire of his striking female bodyguards.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

He said he never takes any option off the table, but that such a move would only delay Iran's nuclear weapons development by a few years.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

Much of the company has been privatized in recent years, but many workers are civil servants and it is very difficult to lay them off in France.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

For many years, adventure writer Peter Heller had nurtured a secret dream: to drop everything and go off to a tropical paradise and learn how to surf.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

But I was eight years old and I was terrified. I think it took me like two months to go off it with the full speed and actually go anywhere,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

But in seven years, he's off to college. This has given me tremendous impetus to try and develop this technology and get it out there and make it available to people with type 1 diabetes before my son goes to college."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15