Oloria,20,has been wearing the niqab, or face-covering veil, for the past three years.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

Whether you measure it in terms of dollars of value added or in terms of returns, Yale has the best record among colleges and universities for the past two decades.

不管是从增值的角度,还是从收益率的角度衡量,过去20年里,耶鲁的表现是所有高校中最好的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I've been taking the train for the past, say, give and(or) take six years and I've always loved it.

我以前一直坐火车，大约6年里都乘坐它，我一直很喜欢它。

方便的欧洲之星 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"I was stuck in Pakistan for the past five or six days.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

I think for the past three months, I've only had five or six hours of sleep at night.

我觉得在过去三个月里，每晚我就睡5到6个小时。

I need 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Or patients might be advised to think less about the past and more about the present and the future.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

because my uncle has lived there for the past 30 years or something, and

我的叔叔在那里生活了将近30年。

最喜欢的一门课 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In the past,children have died or suffered permanent harm from Reye's Syndrome during widespread influenza attacks.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

I think it's much severe than what you have experienced in the past year or two for the general economic situation.

甚至比过去两年的经济形势,还要严峻。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

"This material doesn't just reveal abuses, this material describes the past six years of war, every major attack that resulted in someone being detained or someone being killed."

VOA: special.2010.07.31

Gadamer believes that historicism forgets the possibility of being taught something by past-ness or otherness.

伽达默尔认为历史主义忘记了,我们会从过去性和他性中学到一些东西的可能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He says that in the Antarctic Peninsula, scientists estimate that climate change has caused temperatures to increase by two or three degrees Celsius over the past fifty years.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

And for better or for worse we've done a lot of damage over the past few years for this stuff.

过去的几年，无论好坏,我们都已经对这个东西造成很大的损坏了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

In the past, the Sunni insurgent group Jundallah,or Soldiers of God, has said it was behind acts of violence in the region.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

All right? If I'm gambling, I'm saying, gee, if I'm really lucky, it'll be only on this side, and I've got a little bit of work to do, but if I'm unlucky, I'm scrawed, the past pluperfect of screwed, OK., or a Boston fish.

如果我够幸运的话，目标数就会在这边的，这会大大减少我的工作量，但如果不幸运呢？我就完蛋了，我就得再从剩下的这么大的数组里找了，这很痛苦，因此选中位数是正确答案。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This was highly unusual, since most places in the South have tried to paint over or tear down remnants of their segregationist past.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

However, when you keep going south in Italy, past Rome, Roman tradition says the city was founded in 754 or 753? 753.

然而,当你在意大利继续南下,越过古罗马城,罗马人一直认为罗马城,建于公元前754或753,应是753年

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Now it's high time that we divert from the past or from the notion of liberating the country onto other important things in the economy and education,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

Right, OK. So what I do to open the book is to ask the reader to image that they walking past a shallow pond, maybe somewhere in the park or or university campus.

好的，我在这本书的开篇,请读者想象这样一个画面，你走过,一个浅浅的池塘，可能是公园里,或是大学校园里。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"The Maoists is also in a way isolated or cornered, because when it was heading the government in the past, it basically refused to take suggestion, from any of the coalition partners."

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

Furthermore it would seem that the study of the great books or great thinkers of the past can easily degenerate into a kind of antiquarianism into a sort of pedantry.

更甚之,研究这些巨著或,过往的伟大思想家,更可能轻易地降格为古物癖,或是卖弄学问。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The fish that,for one reason or another, that found their way past the barrier, we suppressed them and try to take them out of the system to keep them from establishing in Lake Michigan."

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Use this pattern whenever you want to find out about the timing of an event in the past, present, or future.

当你想知道过去、现在或者未来某件事发生的时间时，你都可以使用这个句型。

When 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But there is a lot of uncertainty, and of course that is manifest in the share price which has lost about 40 percent of its value over the course of the past six or seven weeks."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

And I mean this means way past all the chemistry they've taken, they're now graduate students or they're now professors, and they're still writing out Lewis structures.

我想说的是这意味着尽管他们早就学完了所有的化学，他们现在都已经是研究生甚至是教授了，但他们依然在不断地写路易斯结构。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And as the story acknowledges, that's where we'll be," He explains, as Pentagon officials have in the past, that the deployment of major combat or training units always requires the deployment of additional support troops.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

We did have a large,short position in subprime mortgage-backed securities, which has paid off enormously for the University and really helped protect assets in the past nine months or a year.

我们确实曾持有很多,次级抵押担保证券的空头,它们为耶鲁赚了不少钱,并且在过去的9个月或1年间,为资产保值发挥了实在的作用

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"They have gone through the past month or so of very hard effort to reach the point where they can begin to consolidate and control ground that they have won so, by no means this is over yet.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

It may have been true or maybe not, but it made people start looking at the past, what really happened between 1940 and 1945, or '44, end of '44, what really happened.

也许是真的也许是假的,但是让人们开始回首往事,在1940年到1945年间到底发生了什么,或者44年,44年末,到底发生了什么

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

They've clustered books Genesis through Esther,which tell of things past; the books of Job through the Song of Songs or the Song of Solomon contain wisdom that applies to the present;and then the prophetic books, Isaiah to Malachi, contain or tell of things future.

创世纪》从《以斯帖记》开始讲过去;,《约伯记》从雅歌也叫所罗门之歌开始,讲现世可以运用的智慧，然后是《先知书》,从《以塞亚记》到《玛拉基书》，讲述未来的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选