Built nearly a century ago to provide power to lumber and paper mills in the town of Port Angeles, these dams blocked access to upstream spawning beds for six species of salmon.
这些大坝建于近一个世纪以前，是为洛杉矶港的木材和造纸厂提供电力的，大坝阻断了6种鲑鱼的上游产卵地。
Nearly a century ago, biologists found that if they separated an invertebrate animal embryo into two parts at an early stage of its life, it would survive and develop as two normal embryos.
近一个世纪前，生物学家发现，如果他们在无脊椎动物胚胎生命的早期阶段将其分成两部分，它会存活下来并发育成两个正常的胚胎。
What's even crazier is that just such a force was predicted, nearly a century ago, by Albert Einstein himself.
更不可思议的是，差不多一百年前爱因斯坦就预言了那么一种力的存在。
And can we witness, at the heart of the Milky Way, the warped space and time predicted by Einstein nearly a century ago?
我们能够在银河的心脏地带见证由爱因斯坦将近一个世纪前预言的时空弯曲吗？
But he also argues that "there is no solid legal precedent for a right to compensation with respect to events that took place nearly a century ago."
但他同时辩称法律上没有先例为将近100年前的案件受害者争取权利。
The United States, Britain and Japan launched the first aircraft carriers nearly a century ago. The U. S. Navy, with 11, is the only fleet that currently operates more than one.
美国日本英国建造航母的历史已接近一个世纪。美国海军现拥有11艘航空母舰，也是目前世界上唯一拥有复数航母战斗群的国家。
Nearly a century ago, the U.S. made high school nearly universal, and the crop of graduates led the nation to economic prosperity, economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz have written.
近一个世纪以前，美国就几乎在全民范围内普及了高中教育，正如经济学家克劳迪娅·戈尔丁和劳伦斯·卡茨所说，一茬茬毕业生引领美国走向了经济繁荣。
By contrast, the Titanic, built by White Star Line nearly a century ago and at the time the largest steam ship ever, measured 269 metres and was less than a fifth of the size of today's behemoths.
相比之下，由白星航运公司于近百年前建造的、当时史上最大的蒸汽机船——“泰坦尼克号”只有269米长，而其体积尚不足今日这些巨兽的五分之一。
Meat intake is 75 pounds higher now than a century ago when the Department of Agriculture first started keeping records. Cheese has increased by nearly 30 pounds, and added oils have increased, too.
这状况并不是一直如此，目前的肉类摄取量比一个世纪前农业部刚开始做记录时多出75磅，奶酪摄取量已增加了接近30磅，添加的油也增加了。
He'd purged most of his accent nearly half a century ago, but now it had returned.
他的口音半世纪以前就都该了，可是现在又回来了。
But not nearly as raw as they did half a century ago, when even in Europe some women did not have the vote, discrimination was rife, women's jobs were second-class and the pay gap was huge.
但是相比于过去的半个世纪———那个时候，即使是在欧洲，女性都没有投票权，广泛受到歧视，女性的工作都是第二档，报酬差距悬殊- - -要好一些。
I've been on two real dates in my life, both of them in my freshman year of college, nearly a quarter century ago.
在我的生活中有过两次真实的约会，两次都是在我的大学一年级，那是差不多25年以前。
Just a century ago, advertising wasn't nearly so intrusive.
100年前，广告并不是这么烦人。
For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.
因为我已在你们和全能的上帝面前，作了跟我们祖先将近一又四分之三世纪以前所拟定的相同的庄严誓言。
Nearly half a century ago, more than 30 "China's first" born here.
近半个世纪来，有30多个“中国第一”在这里诞生。
The OECD is a multinational grouping of 30 countries established nearly a half-century ago, with Switzerland a member.
经合组织是一个多国集团30个国家设立了近一个半世纪以前，瑞士，一名成员。
The OECD is a multinational grouping of 30 countries established nearly a half-century ago, with Switzerland a member.
经合组织是一个多国集团30个国家设立了近一个半世纪以前，瑞士，一名成员。
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