For years,rich slave owners had talked of taking the southern states out of the Union to save their way of life.
VOA: special.2009.07.02
What I plot on this graph here is as a function time, years, dates, life expectancy as a function of time.
在这儿的这张图是,一个关于时间,年,日期的函数,将寿命长短作为时间的函数
I thought London gives me enough to do for the next four years while I am studying to have a life.
我觉得在我学会在这里生活的时候,伦敦给予了我足够在未来四年里可以做的事情。
For over sixty years, Sendak's artistic skill has brought to life richly imaginative worlds filled with children, animals and magical creatures.
VOA: special.2009.10.05
A Life of Her Own is a book that I became obsessed with, oh, about five or six years ago.
她的人生》是一本让我着迷的书,大概五六年前
He spent the next thirty-four years of his life collecting stones and building a wildly imaginative palace building.
VOA: special.2010.04.14
It has a half-life of approximately three years at which time it stops decaying.
它生命的一半是三年,在三年的时候,它就停止衰亡。
The puppeteers train for many years to move as one in bringing the puppet to life to act in complex theater productions.
VOA: special.2009.09.23
And success, as a fourteen years-old squash player, was the most important thing in my life.
成功对14岁的壁球手来说,是我生命中最重要的东西。
Clara Barton really began her life of caring for the sick when she was only eleven years old.
VOA: special.2009.07.26
For the first two years of Twitter's life, we were flying blind.
推特诞生的头两年,我们经营的很盲目。
He wrote a book about the final years in the political life of a long-time mayor of Boston,Massachusetts.
VOA: special.2010.04.11
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。
She was eighty-nine years old. In her later years, she was forced to live a simple life because of lack of money.
VOA: special.2009.03.29
From the fact that after 100,000 years or a million years or whatever it is, eventually life would grow tiresome, that hardly shows that life has grown tiresome after 50 years or 80 years or 100.
虽然经过十万年,或一百万年后,生命会变得了无生趣,但那不能说明经过50,80,百年后,生命会变得无趣。
Tom Farnquist says shipwrecks are exciting because they preserve a detailed picture of maritime life that can be hundreds of years old.
VOA: special.2009.11.11
In fact for readers of Paradise Lost, and this has been an experience now for a few hundred years, it does often seem as if there were some mysterious life force, a pulsating through Milton's dense and driving lines of unrhymed, iambic pentameter.
实际上,《失乐园》的读者们,几百年来一直都有这种体验,确实,似乎真有一种神秘的生命力,一种脉搏,贯穿在弥尔顿密集,强劲,没有韵律,长短不一的五音步格诗之中。
She was seventy-three years old. She leaves behind a written record of her life and legacy through the words of her poems.
VOA: special.2010.04.18
The expected life spans increased dramatically in the last couple of hundred years until now, for people that were born when you were born you can expect to live to be 80 years old, a doubling in life span, fairly dramatic.
从几百年前到现在,预期寿命显著增长了,你们同期出生的那批人,能够活到八十岁,预期寿命增长了一倍,令人印象深刻
In later years, he looked back at his marriage to Hadley as the happiest time of his life.
VOA: special.2011.06.19
Because you can hire someone who is a software engineer and he's been doing it for 10 years and if they're doing it for 10 years that's probably what they're doing for their life, you know, and I mean that's cool.
你可以聘用一名,有着十年工作经验的软件工程师,如果他已经在这行业,待了十年了,那么可能这辈子他都会干这行,这样不错。
He worked as a cattleman for several years, then wrote about the heroic life of the cowboy in a book called "The Virginian."
VOA: special.2010.03.18
It turns out that if you start learning a language, a second language is where most of the work's been done, within the first few years of life you're fine.
如果你在出生的头几年里开始学习一门语言,非常努力地学习了第二门语言,那么你一切正常
In fact,by age eighty-five, people are happier with their life than when they are eighteen years old.
VOA: special.2010.08.03
The generations of students that are coming to University today have essentially grown up with the Internet. And some of them are the first generation Where the internet have been part of their life in their Formative years. For most of us, the people of my age, The internet came later.
现在进大学的这一代学生,成长在因特网的环境下,一些人是伴随着因特网成长的第一代,网络是他们性格形成期的一部分,然而对我们这个年纪的人来说,因特网是后来才有的。
The housing market is showing new life after three years of falling prices and too much supply.
VOA: special.2009.09.04
But now I've had my fill of both and I can spend my later years, the twilight of my life, turning to the things about the gods, " performing sacrifices commanded by the gods."
但现在我已两者尽得,我可以在剩下的光阴,我的残年,转向服伺众神,执行众神所指示的祭典“
From a cave room you can see far up and down the canyon and imagine what life was like there seven hundred years ago.
VOA: special.2010.07.05
I just have cycled all my life since I was about 11, so it's 50 old years now.
从我11岁开始我就一直骑自行车,现在已有50年了。
Well, twenty years ago what it meant to grow up as a Muslim in suburban America was to live a very bifurcated life.
好的,20年前,一位穆斯林在美国市郊成长意味着,他的生活要分成两部分。
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