We talked last week about how this idea developed a long time ago.
VOA: special.2010.03.12
So I gave you some numbers I made up actually a long time ago, but since I've been using this game in class, somebody went out and checked.
我列举的数字都是我很久前编出来的,在我需要在课上引用数字的时候就有了,有人还为此做了调查
I should have started writing this paper a long time ago.
我早该开始写这篇论文。
This U.S.government-sponsored conference on pandemics was planned long ago.
VOA: standard.2009.04.28
This is another example, not so long ago--this is December 2003.
这是03年12月的图,也不算太久之前
And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud by night Annabel Lee chilling my Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsman came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea.
这就是原因,很久以前,在海边的王国,夜里一阵冷风从云中吹落,冻僵了我的;,于是她高贵的亲戚到来了,把她从我身边带走,将她关进一座坟墓,在大海边的王国里。
Now this was nineteen-eighty-two, quite a long time ago, at a time when people really weren't paying much attention to calories like they are now, so you'd expect the errors to decline as time goes on and there's some evidence of that, but they're errors nonetheless.
这是1982年的实验,很早之前了,当时的人们并不像今天的人们一样,那么关注卡路里,所以你会预计误差会随时间推移而减小,有证据证明了这一点,但误差仍然存在
Now in the course of this, a student asked a very good question that I should have pointed out a long time ago, and that is: when an orchestra plays or an ensemble plays and they're looking at their music and they're reading their music, do they play a chord?
在这期间,我本该早就提起的,由一个学生提出的非常好的问题是,当管弦乐队演奏或合奏团演出时,他们各个盯着并读自己的那部分乐谱,他们奏出和弦了吗?
London, already by the late sixteenth century, one-sixth of all the people, I think this is E.A. Wrigley who pointed this out a long time ago--one-sixth of all the people in England went to London frequently, because London was absolutely gigantic as a city.
伦敦,早在十六世纪后期,六分之一的人口,我想是E.A莱格力很久以前给出的这个数据,他指出,当时有六分之一的英国人,会经常去伦敦,因为伦敦当时是个巨型城市
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