There was a time when poetry was really cool...

VOA: special.2010.04.05

And I think there was a time when that sense of dominion was used as justification for using those resources only to serve human needs.

我想，有一段时间里，这种统治感,被人们当做使用资源的借口,仅仅为了满足人类的需求。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

There was a time when people were very close to their food.

有一段时期人类与食物的联系很紧密

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

There was a time when many clowns were washed-up rodeo competitors, slowed by age, injury or overuse of alcohol.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

This was eventually taken out, and actually just for your interest, there was no overlap between the time when cocaine was in Coca Cola and lithium was in 7-Up, so there was a few years difference between those two times, but it's amazing to think about what does go into processed foods.

锂最终被去掉了，如果你感兴趣的话，可口可乐中含有可卡因,与七喜中含锂的时代,并没有交集，它们之间还差了几年，但是想一想加工食品里,会加入什么东西还是很令人吃惊的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

There used to be a time when the quickest way to travel across the western United States was in a stagecoach.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

It used to be the case-- I forget how long drive-in windows have been around, certainly as long as you guys can remember-- but there was a time when drive-in windows didn't exist.

曾经是这样的情况,我忘了免下车餐厅已经出现多久了,当然可能自打你们记事时就出现了,但是在免下车餐厅尚未出现的时候

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It was a time when there were two Souths in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Now there was a time when people thought fat was bad and it didn't-- and people didn't really understand there were different kinds of fat, or they didn't realize that different kinds of fat had different impacts on health.

曾经有段时期,人们认为脂肪是有害的,它不能...,人们当时不知道脂肪还分不同种类,所以就没有意识到,不同的脂肪对人体有不同的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Now there was probably a time when people enjoyed eating more.

可能曾有段时间,人们更享受饮食

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选