Suddenly, we have evidence, thirteen or fourteen hundred years earlier, that people were reading this stuff and, by and large, it's a pretty constant textual tradition.

因为突然间，我们有了证据，证明1200或1400年前就有人，读着这些经文而且总的来说，经文一直延续了其文本传统。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There's also some belief that the Vikings discovered America 300 years earlier.

也有人认为，维京人在那之前三百年就发现了美洲。

哥伦布的故事 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It was an event that was really meant to be a kind of coronation of Claude Levi-Strauss, whose work had burst upon the American scene only a few years earlier.

这个会议其实可以看做是,列维斯特劳斯加冕礼，他的作品在会议前几年刚刚传入美国。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But if we now introduce some progressive memory, so--a progressive memory loss-- so that I know longer remember what I did 100,000 years earlier.

但是如果引入持续的记忆…,持续的记忆缺失-,我不记得,十万年前做过什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's gonna take, as I mentioned earlier, probably 10 to 20 years. These years will be very interesting and I look forward to them. Thank you!

那会花费，如我先前提到的，可能,10到20年的时间，这些年会非常有意思,我很期待，谢谢！

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

We've had no down years since 1987--1987 that was the crash in October that I talked about earlier.

987年以后我们就没有亏损过,正是刚提过在十月发生了股灾的那个1987年

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So sometimes, if you miss a class, you can just kind of check in earlier years, like lectures,

所以有时候，如果你错过了一节课，你可以看看前几年的讲座，

开放式的课程？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A few years earlier he had also gotten this law.

他实际上几年前已经发现了这个定律

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The United Kingdom was the prominent first case even though they had invented the gold standard hundreds of years earlier.

英国是著名的第一个放弃金本位的国家,即使它在几百年前,发明了金本位制度。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选