We've forked out a small fortune on home improvements over the years.
这些年来我们花了许多钱做房屋装修。
Without a doubt, each of the small decisions you make in this realm can make a big impact on your health in the years to come.
毫无疑问，你在这方面做出的每一个小决定都会在未来几年对你的健康产生重大影响。
These small square stones became a problem for the building and continued to fall off the face for 40 years until a major renovation was undertaken.
这些方形的小石板成了大楼的问题，四十年来不断从外墙脱落，直到一项重大的翻新工程开始进行。
Ten years later, both large and small businesses had web pages, and most provided users with the opportunity to place an order.
十年后，大大小小的企业都有了网页，而且大多数企业都为用户提供了下单的机会。
Since 2010, the couple has helped 125 small dairy farms convert to grass-fed, with more than 80% of those farms coming on board during the last two years.
自2010年以来，这对夫妇已经帮助125个小型奶牛场转变为草饲模式，其中超过80%的奶牛场在过去两年中加入了这个行列。
Since 2010, the couple has helped 125 small dairy farms convert to grass-fed, with more than 80%of those farms coming on board during the last two years.
自2010年以来，这对夫妇已经帮助125家小型奶牛场转型为草饲农场，其中超过80%的牧场是在过去两年内才开始运营的。
They range from a few days for small lakes up to several hundred years for large ones; Lake Tahoe, in California, has a residence time of 700 years.
它们从小湖的几天到大湖的几百年不等；加州的太浩湖有700年的滞留时间。
A Harvard anthropologist has proposed that using fire to cook food could be dated back to almost two million years and that it could explain hominid features like having a large brain and small teeth.
哈佛大学的一位人类学家提出，用火做饭可以追溯到近200万年前，这可以解释人类的一些特征，比如大脑大，牙齿小。
It made her sad to find a solitary otter in a small cage at Beijing Zoo four years ago.
四年前，她在北京动物园的一个小笼子里发现了一只孤独的水獭，这让她十分难过。
Technology will improve society in ways big and small over the next few years, yet this will be little comfort to those who find their lives and careers upended by automation.
在接下来几年里，科技总会在大大小小的方面促进社会进步，但对那些生活和工作都被自动化颠覆的人来说，这并没有什么安慰作用。
Many years ago my father made a small difference in his village.
许多年前，我父亲在他的村子里做了一个小小的改变。
How would you cope with working 50 hours a week by yourself in a small room at home, for days, months and years on end?
一个人在家里的小房间里一周工作50个小时，日复一日，月复一月，年复一年，你是如何应对的？
In recent years, many mid-sized cities have begun to adopt a middle-of-the-road approach incorporating the excitement and opportunity of large cities with small cities' quiet after midnight.
近年来，许多中型城市开始采取中间路线，将大城市的兴奋和机遇与小城市午夜后的宁静结合起来。
It is important to remember that success is a sum of small efforts made each day and often takes years to achieve.
成功是由每天一点一滴的努力汇集而成，通常需要多年的时间才能实现，记住这一点很重要。
From the small number of impact craters that appear on Martian lava flows, one can estimate that the planet was volcanically active as recently as a half-billion years ago—and may be active today.
从火星熔岩流上出现的少量陨石坑中，我们可以估计，在5亿年前，这个星球上的火山还很活跃——也许现在依然活跃。
It was a small village many years ago.
许多年前，这里还是一个小村庄。
The song was then published several times over the next ten years, often with small changes in the lyrics.
这首歌在后来的十年中被多次发表，歌词经常有微小的变化。
Jack is 11 years old and he lives in a small village.
杰克11岁了，他住在一个小村庄里。
I stopped for the night in a small village while I was on holiday in the Himalayas a few years ago.
几年前我在喜马拉雅山度假时，我停下来在一个小村庄过夜。
Worship services were held in small halls during the first years.
在那里的第一年，礼拜在一个很小的礼堂举行。
My father was a minister for over fifty years, serving mostly in small, rural churches.
我的父亲做传道人五十多年，大半在乡间的小教会服事。
A cultural chasm-which did not exist 40 years ago and which was still relatively small 20 years ago-has developed between the traditional middle class and the top 30 percent of society.
一种传统中产阶级和30%的社会上层阶级之间的文化裂痕正在增大。这种文化裂痕在40年前并不存在，在20年前已经出现但仍然相对较小。
Relative to the size of its economy, China’s intervention is small in both years, and smaller in 2010 than in 2006.
相比于经济规模，中国的干预规模算是小的，而且2010年的量还小于2006年。
A friend of mine had been in the business of brokering sales of small companies for about 30 years.
我的一位朋友从事小公司出售业务的中介工作大概已经30年了。
Mining remains dangerous work, as the disasters that seem to befall small Appalachian towns every few years attest.
采矿仍然是危险工作，最近，美国阿巴拉契亚的小城群落每几年就会遭遇一次灾难。
The two countries disputed for years over a small strip of land on their border.
这两个国家为了边界上一块土地已经争执多年。
In the past few years, the small West African nation has become a key transit point for drug cartels from South America.
过去几年间，这个西非小国已经成为南美贩毒集团的中转站。
Suddenly I felt I was like the small kid over twenty years ago.
我变成二十几年前的孩子了。
When my turn came, I said I'd been governor of a small state for twelve years.
轮到我的时候，我说我担任一个小州的州长有12年时间。
General Atomics has built more than five dozen small reactors over the years, mostly for research purposes, including two gas-cooled units.
通用原子公司已经在数十年内兴建了60座小型核反应堆，其中大多数处于研究目的，包括两座气冷堆。
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