伦敦帝国理工学院的科学家称，如果不是20万年前的一场灾难性的洪水，英国可能仍然是法国的一部分。
Britain might still be part of France if it weren't for a disastrous flood 200,000 years ago, according to scientists from Imperial College in London.
40年前，出口或进口的过程涉及到许多操作步骤，这可能会导致一部分货物在运输过程中受损或被盗。
Forty years ago, the process of exporting or importing involved a great many stages of handling, which risked portions of the shipment being damaged or stolen along the way.
100年前，演员兼电影制作人查理·卓别林制作了电影《寻子遇仙记》，许多人认为这是他最伟大的一部电影。
It's been 100 years since the actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin produced the film The Kid, which many consider to be his greatest one.
五年前，汤姆·帕金斯，一位硅谷最成功的投资人之一，写了一部小说。
FIVE years ago Tom Perkins, one of Silicon Valley's most successful investors, wrote a novel.
两年前我执导了一部电影，叫做“走向街头”你们谁看过吗？
I directed a movie two years ago called "Step Up To The Streets." Anybody?
十年前，我在一部小说中曾描述过一个中学生在议会演讲中说：“这个国家什么都不缺，就是缺乏希望之心”。
Ten years ago I wrote a novel in which a middle-school student, delivering a speech before Parliament, says: "This country has everything." You can find whatever you want here.
再多听几次以后我突然想到…15年前，我是在一部卡通《流氓兔》里听过(《兔儿狂想曲》，1946)。
After listening to it several more times, it suddenly hit me... I heard it in a Bugs Bunny cartoon 15 years ago (Rhapsody Rabbit, 1946).
他说，“我们40年前拍摄此片时，是想把它拍成一部黑色幽默的喜剧片。”
When we made the film 40 years ago, we made it as a comedy, albeit a very black one.
其中之一是，有一部关于期权与股票价格表现，的金融文献，讲述的是十年前，关于公司发行期权的，一些不太正确的做法。
One is that -there's a literature in finance about options and stock price performance, which goes back ten years, that shows that something is not quite right with the way companies issue options.
大约10年前，我们让265名大学生回想一部他们在孩童时期曾真正地被惊吓到过的电影。
"About 10 years ago we asked 265 college students to think about a movie they saw as a child or a teen that really scared them," he said.
从十年前拥有自己的第一部数码相机那时候我就开始拍照片，我拍过许多其他动物的照片，包括鸡和狗。
'I have been taking pictures since I got my first digital camera ten years ago and I've worked with lots of other animals before including chickens and dogs.
美国第一部词典——诺亚·韦伯斯特先生的《简明英语词典》于200年前出版，当时收入其中的一批新词如今已为大家十分熟悉了。
America's first dictionary — Noah Webster's a Compendious dictionary of the English Language — was published 200 years ago and also introduced a crop of fresh words that have now become familiar.
三十年前，库布里克在28岁拍摄的越战影片《全金属外壳》立刻成为反战片中最为无情的一部作品。
Thirty years before his half-brilliant Vietnam film Full Metal Jacket, the 28-year-old Kubrick made this most merciless and clinical of antiwar war movies.
芯片的价格从50美元一块下跌到5美元左右，而是用此芯片的电话价格则从5年前的250美元下跌到现在的25美元一部。
The chips have dropped from $50 apiece to around $5, and a phone that would have cost $250 five years ago is now $25.
一个白人制作了一部电影让它上映并期待着票房第一是不可想象的，但这在25年前确实发生了，《窈窕奶爸》的罗宾·威廉姆斯和《窈窕淑男》的达斯汀·霍夫曼就做了同样的事。
One can't imagine a White man making a movie in a dress and expecting the film to be No. 1 at the box office. But that did happen 25 years ago when Robin Williams " Mrs."
1GB数据传输量在10年前可算是一个天文级别的数字，而今天在网络上看一部电影的数据传输量便可以达到。
A gigabyte of transfer was astronomical ten years ago, but you can burn that by watching a single movie through Netflix these days.
9年前，我在一个大城市里决定写一部小说时，首先想到的就是兰溪河以及以兰溪河为生的人们。
Nine years ago when, in a large city, I decided to write a novel, I first of all thought of the Lanxi river and the people whose livelihoods depend on the river.
派杰公司对4500名学生进行了调查，发现在接下来的半年里，有37%的人准备买一部iPhone，而17%的人已经有了iPhone=，一年前的一项类似调查中，这一数字为14%。
Piper Jaffray surveyed 4,500 students, finding 37% plan to buy an iPhone in the next six months. Already 17% of those asked own an iPhone, compared with 14% in a similar study a year ago.
派杰公司对4500名学生进行了调查，发现在接下来的半年里，有37%的人准备买一部iPhone，而17%的人已经有了iPhone=，一年前的一项类似调查中，这一数字为14%。
Piper Jaffray surveyed 4, 500 students, finding 37% plan to buy an iPhone in the next six months. Already 17% of those asked own an iPhone, compared with 14% in a similar study a year ago.
约翰•理查森十五年前（John Richardson）撰写了第一部描写巴勃罗•毕加索（Pablo Picasso）生活的著作，这是一本非常权威的著作，而且具有很高的可读价值。 他的第二部描写毕加索生活的著作也发表有十年之久了。
THE first volume of John Richardson's magisterial and wonderfully readable life of Pablo Picasso came out over 15 years ago, and more than ten have elapsed since the publication of the second.
现在的乌兹别克斯坦地区在几千年前是波斯帝国的一部分。
For thousands of years the present area of Uzbekistan was a part of the Persian Empire.
托马斯表示：“一个在20年前为得到某份工作而撒下的谎，可以变成说谎者现实生活的一部分。
Mr Thomas says: “A lie told 20 years ago to get a job can become part of the liar's reality.
正如我第一部分所说：“我在经营时犯了很多错误，这篇文章包含了我希望十年前有人能够告诉我的事情。”
As I was saying in “Part I:” I’ve made some major mistakes in business; this article contains things I wish someone had told me ten years ago.
三年前，张荣发就停止了订购新船，如今他正在丢弃长荣176艘船中的一部分。
Three years ago he dropped plans to order new ships. Now he is scrapping part of his 176-strong fleet.
这两位年轻的演员自打七年前拍摄第一部哈利·波特的时候就已经认识了，却从未被传有暧昧关系。译者注：哈？
The teen actors have known each other since filming the first "Harry Potter" installment seven years ago, but have never before been romantically linked.
这两位年轻的演员自打七年前拍摄第一部哈利·波特的时候就已经认识了，却从未被传有暧昧关系。 （译者注：哈？
The teen actors have known each other since filming the first "Harry Potter" installment seven years ago, but have never before been romantically linked.
50年前由当时新兴的非洲独立国家继承下来的公路铁路基础设施，现在很大一部分都已经年久失修。
A large part of the road and rail infrastructure inherited by newly independent African countries about 50 years ago has fallen into disrepair.
一种说法认为亚特兰蒂斯是地中海城市塞浦路斯的一部分，数千年前于地震中沉入海底。
One disputed theory holds that Atlantis was on a portion of the Mediterranean island Cyprus that was submerged during an earthquake thousands of years ago.
一种说法认为亚特兰蒂斯是地中海城市塞浦路斯的一部分，数千年前于地震中沉入海底。
One disputed theory holds that Atlantis was on a portion of the Mediterranean island Cyprus that was submerged during an earthquake thousands of years ago.
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