From that time until she was almost seven years old, Helen could communicate only by making signs with her hands.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

And Athens was until only fairly recent times in human history the most famous democracy that ever existed. I say fairly recent times until you know the American democracy.

而雅典是直到近期为止,一直是人类历史上曾存在过,最著名的民主之城，我所谓的近期,当然是指在美国民主出现之前。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

We don't find this out until we get to the next line, that the "fruit" at the end of the line is only a kind of temporary resting place.

直到下一句我们才发现“,这句末的“果子“只是暂时的停顿。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Until the early nineteen fifties, British teams were the only foreigners given permission to climb Mount Everest.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

You can brute force it and unfortunately, the so-called Caesar cipher is not very secure because if you assume, for our purposes in English alphabet with 26 characters, say all lowercase for all uppercase, my God, you only have to try like 24, 25, 26 possible rotations until you can figure out what his secret message is.

你可以强行解密但是不幸地是，所谓的凯撒密码不是很安全的,因为如果假设，对于我们的26个字符的字母表,指明所有的小写为大写，我的天，你只要试24，25次，26次就可以解答出,密文的内容。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Chocolate remained a drink that only wealthy people could afford to drink until the eighteenth century.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

Virgil would go on to be a great epic poet but not until after he had written these pastoral eclogues and then after that, after he had written the georgic poems, only then does he write finally the great epic poem The Aeneid.

他会成为一个伟大的史诗家,但这一直到他写出这些抒情诗之后,在那之后，在他完成了那些田园诗篇之后，直到那时他才最终完成了史诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

At first, she was concerned only with finding a way to keep control of The Washington Post until her sons were old enough to supervise it.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

Needless to say, the satisfaction of John Milton, Sr. will have to be postponed to the great hereafter. He will not be able to reap the profit of his investment in his son's study until not only after his own death, but of course after his son's death as well. That's Milton's logic here.

这个名字已经历经了好几个世纪，不用怀疑,弥尔顿父亲的赔偿会继续延续下去,但他却不能在有生之年享受到他对儿子支持的回报，在弥尔顿死后也一样享受不到，这就是弥尔顿的逻辑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Only one of the nineteen people developed the disease -- until that August.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

Until now,only four genes had been linked with the disease.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

At one time, the president who had retreated and retreated until he was pressed against the wall, could only be secured by a number of gentlemen forming round him and making a kind of barrier of their own bodies.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

"The common thought until very recently was that this is a disease only of wealthy women and wealthy countries."

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

Gradually,Asian Carp edge out the other native species in the river until they are one of the only kinds of fish left.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

He fought with them until the end of the war. For him,the reconciliation process has only just begun.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Until the early 1990's they only observed the weekly Sabbath and the spring holiday of Passover.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

The two countries have, until recently, had close political and military ties and Turkey was widely seen as Israel's only friend in the region.

VOA: standard.2010.06.03

Casella says only $3.3 million dollars is needed to keep the plane flying to these West African countries until the end of the year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

Until now,only the European Union has followed the WHO's suggestion, banning the practice in 2006.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

At this office, you worked only from 8:30 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon because your boss wanted you to stay fresh and eager.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Until now,the Paris Institute of Political Studies, commonly known as Sciences Po, is the only grande ecole to have aggressively sought out a more diverse student body.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

"The only opportunity is now." "We can't wait until later because families are going to get separated, people are going to get deported and that's not fair."

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Until now, South Korea has only taken part as an observer.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

Until Thursday,only a small number had been freed.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Several Iranian politicians close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have demanded Tehran ship only part of its enriched-uranium stockpile abroad until some of the batch shipped to Russia was returned in more highly enriched form.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

"For sure the military will not only clear and secure the area, but ensure unless and until the area is taken over completely by the civil administration, and the writ of the government is restored and peace and normalcy return to the area, the military will remain in the area,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.07