Nineteen eighty-nine was a long time ago but the same results showed up in 1999.

989年距离现在很远了,但在1999年得到同样的结果。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Well, it's a long time ago but it was elementary school, you know, maybe 3rd grade, 4th grade,

那是很久以前的事情了，应该是小学时候吧，那大概是三年级或者四年级，

美国的博物馆教育 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

- So what we're seeing is this is notes from 1902 -- he actually didn't publish any of this work or these ideas that led to Lewis structures until 1916, but his early class notes were used as evidence about how long ago he actually came up with the idea of it.

我们看到的这是，1902，年的讲义-,实际上他直到1916年才发表这些工作或者想法,后来发展成为了路易斯结构，但他早年上课的讲义却成为了他在多久之前,就产生了这个想法的证据。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

That happened not too long ago, but it was just a really fantastic display of all his work.

那是不久前的事情，但它真的极好地展示了他所有的作品。

印象深刻的展示会 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In more recent times, I have seen... it's a long time ago, but I've seen concerts there.

最近，我看了……那是挺久前的事情了，我在那儿看了演唱会。

精彩音乐会 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

that's a long time ago, more than... well, about a hundred years, but I think,

那是很久以前，多过……嗯，差不多一百年了，但是我觉得，

以爱因斯坦为榜样 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Well, for a thing called main which itself is a function but a function I wrote, a tool I am writing at the moment not like printf which someone else wrote long ago, I have to say where does main start, where does main end, and I do that by using these curly braces.

至于这个名曰main的函数,由我们自己写的函数，也是一个工具,只不过由我们自己编写，而不是像printf那样已经由前人写好了,我们必须要说明main在哪开始，在哪结束，这样我们就要用到大括号了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I held off for a very long time, but I just got mine a month ago. And now I don't know how I live without it.

我拖了好长时间，一个月前才买的。而且现在我不知道离开它该如何生活。

没有智能手机活不了 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人