The idea for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. Twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor of its new dictionary.
这本词典的想法来自1857年在英国的一次重要会议。22年后，牛津大学邀请詹姆斯·穆雷担任其新词典的编辑。
Andrew Meldrum, an American, who's lived in Zimbabwe for over twenty years, is accused of publishing an untrue story and faces up to two years in prison if found guilty.
美国人安德鲁·梅尔德鲁姆在津巴布韦生活了20多年，他被指控发表了一篇不真实的报道，如果罪名成立，他将面临两年的监禁。
In just two hours, streams can rise ten to twenty feet.
在短短两小时内，溪流的水位可以上升十到二十英尺。
The two women gabbled away twenty to the dozen.
那两个女人叽里咕噜说个没完没了。
Owing to the reason known to all the relations between the two people were suspended for over twenty years.
由于众所周知的原因，两国人民间的关系中断了20多年。
When the old man heard the king's reply, he took his two sons to the royal elephant stables and selected twenty of the best elephants.
老人听到国王的答复后，就带着他的两个儿子去了皇家象厩，挑选了二十头最健壮的大象。
To him it was a check for twenty-two dollars, that was all, and it would buy him something to eat.
在他眼里那只不过是二十二元钱的一张支票，可以买一点东西吃，如此而已。
Be sure to look over chapter twenty-two before the exam!
考试前一定要把第二十二章看一遍！
For twenty years she unfailingly fulfills her family duties and gives birth to seven sons and two daughters.
二十年来，她力尽她的家庭职责，生育了七个儿子两个女儿。
It seemed to him that already he was saved -twenty - nine men to draw and only two marked papers left.
看来自己得救了。剩下二十九个人抽签，而只有两张带有记号的纸条。
Twenty-two companies are bidding for the contract, and Washington is set to announce a winner this year.
共有二十二家公司对该项目提出报价，华盛顿将于今年内宣布其中的获胜者。
When the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand of them.
大马色的亚兰人来帮助琐巴王哈大利谢，大卫就杀了亚兰人二万二千。
Poor fellow, he was only twenty-two—and to be burdened with a family!
可怜的人儿，他才二十二岁，就挑起了家庭重担！
And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
大马士革的亚兰人来帮助琐巴王哈大利谢，大卫就杀了亚兰人二万二千。
Twenty-two species of bat are known to be tentmakers.
已知二十二种蝙蝠是帐篷制造者。
This period of my life, from the age of fifteen or sixteen to twenty-two or twenty-three, was one of utter disorderliness.
从十五六岁到二十二三岁，我这一阶段的生活是完全杂乱无序的。
Twenty-two percent of commuters in Mexico City take more than an hour a day for a typical one-way trip to work.
百分之二十二的受访者单程上班通勤时间超过一小时。
Twenty minutes later she came to Dannerville and braked for the first of the town's two stoplights.
20分钟后，她来到丹维尔，在该城仅有的两个红绿灯中的一个前停下车。
Poor fellow, he was only twenty-two——and to be burned with a family!
可怜的人，他只有22岁，却要承担一个家庭的重任！
Different languages vary both in the number of basic color distinctions they make (ranging anywhere from two to over twenty) and in the ways they draw those distinctions on the spectrum.
不同的语言体系中有不同的基础颜色，这些颜色的数量可能会从2种到超过20种，这些基础色在色谱中的位置也不同。
Twenty-two years ago, I was fortunate to coin two words that have found their way into the dictionaries, and to develop a concept that has proven useful and popular.
22年前，我有幸创造了两个现已被收进词典的词并提出了一个已被证明是有用和受欢迎的概念。
You can see in this double ended guillotine break the pressure was around twenty two to twenty five psi.
你们能看到这个双端闸床破裂，压力大约是在20到25磅每平方英寸。
On my best days, I managed to go out there and do two, ranging from five to twenty minutes.
在我状态最好的时候，我会出去做两次5到20分钟的采访。
Officials continue to investigate the twenty-two-year-old suspect.
警方还在对22岁的犯罪嫌疑人进行调查。
The traditional COMOMO II method requires an estimator to manipulate all twenty-two parameters.
传统的COMOMOII方法需要评估人员使用全部22个参数。
CMMI has been daunting to some organizations for its size and complexity of the framework; it has evolved to twenty-two process areas and forty-three specific goals for level 3.
CMMI由于其架构的规模和复杂性，已经让许多公司望而却步；它涉及到22个过程域和43个特定目标。
A new study says Asia must do more to prevent AIDS, or the number of people infected with H.I.V. could double by two thousand twenty.
一项新的研究表明，亚洲应该在防治艾滋病中做更多的工作，否则到2020年，感染艾滋病病毒的患者数量将翻倍。
Twenty-two years ago, state lawmakers swore fealty not to king or queen but to amusement parks and tourism.
22年前，州议员宣誓不效忠于国王或王后，而要效忠于游乐园与旅游业。
I told them that, as written, it would take about twenty-two minutes to deliver, and if there wasn't too much applause we could stay within the twenty-five-minute window.
我对他们说，这份书面讲稿口头讲起来要花22分钟，如果鼓掌不太多的话，我们的时间不会超过限定的25分钟。
I told them that, as written, it would take about twenty-two minutes to deliver, and if there wasn't too much applause we could stay within the twenty-five-minute window.
我对他们说，这份书面讲稿口头讲起来要花22分钟，如果鼓掌不太多的话，我们的时间不会超过限定的25分钟。
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