But the researchers say their holographic telepresence system is still years away from completion.

VOA: special.2010.11.15

Gee, have you ever wondered how they know the composition of stars that are light-years away?

嘿！你曾经是否想过,他们是怎么知道那些离我们好几光年远的,星星的位置的？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It is kind of haunting when you think it's only 1831 when he writes this, and that Civil War is still 30 years away: "Slavery brutalizes the black population and debilitates the white.

这段话在人们脑海中挥之不去,因为他写下这段话时才1831年,离开内战爆发还有30年时间,"奴隶制残害了黑人,也削弱了白人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"Now,if you're on a star about 1,000 light years away, you see earth as it was 1,000 years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Around seven years of age going up through puberty, the ability to learn language starts to go away.

大约七岁的时候开始,一直到青春期,学习语言的能力逐渐减弱

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Elections could be at least five years away, while the commodore conducts what he calls a mission to cleanse Fiji of corruption and racism.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

And another person from Harvard, Philip Stone one of the parents of positive psychology was Philip Stone, who passed away two years ago, yesterday.

还有一位哈佛的教授，积极心理学的另一位父辈，两年前的昨天去世了。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Now,20 years on, they say they're three years away from realizing that vision."

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

This means the Israelites will have to wander for 40 years in the desert until all of those who left Egypt as adults pass away, leaving a new generation that hasn't really tasted slavery, to enter the land and form a new nation.

这意味着，犹太人必须在沙漠中流浪40年,直到所有一起出埃及的人过世，留下没有做过奴隶的，新一代人，进入应许之地，建立一个新的国家。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Buchanan Renewables President Joel Strickland says it is a low-cost, intermediate solution to Liberia's energy needs, while repairs to the Mt.Coffee hydroelectric facility are at least five years away.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

You don't want--you know that you'd like to take money away from yourself in the high-outcome years and give it to yourself in the low-income years.

你不想...你知道,你想在高收入的年份中,拿出一点钱,给你自己低收入的年份

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"Even an optimist like Frank Drake estimates that there would be no more than about in the galaxy, which means that the nearest one is likely to be about 1,000 light years away."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Meanwhile, his youth was going away and now this imaginary student is now thirty-three years old never had time to marry or start a normal life.

与此同时，他的青春年华也已经逝去了,现在这位设想出来的同学已经33岁了,还没有结婚也没有开始正常人的生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He started writing in eighteen seventy-six, but put the story away after about two years of work.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

It is exciting to stand only a few meters away and watch scientists clean the asphalt off a fossil that is thousands of years old.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

After being away from the Senate for almost eight years, Clay was surprised to find how bitter the two sections of the United States -- north and south -- had grown toward each other.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

"Hopefully,some of these steps will re-establish some of the security that has slipped away in recent years.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

He received five years probation, and was ordered to stay 45 meters away from Rihanna unless both attend public events, when it's reduced to nine meters.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

A former insurance salesman, Koroma came to power two years ago with a reform agenda, promising to do away with what some have described as a "draconian" libel law.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Democrats will try to pass the measure after a replacement is named for Senator Robert Byrd, who passed away June 28 after serving more than 50 years in the Senate.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

Nesterenko says if there is persistence, political will, and genuine desire to make a qualitative move away from the level of relations that characterized recent years and away from the standstill that affected the bilateral agenda, then a new treaty is entirely within reach.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02