中国和埃及早在几千年前就有了最早的图书馆，在这两个国家，烧制陶片上的记录被保存在寺庙和皇宫里。
The earliest libraries existed thousands of years ago in China and Egypt, where collections of records on tablets of baked clay were kept in temples and royal palaces.
大约十年前就有预测认为，流行情景剧《老友记》的观众很快就能通过在遥控器上按几下买到剧中詹妮弗·安妮斯顿的同款毛衣了。
Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of "Friends", a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.
荷兰人冯•博客思霍曼早在100年前就有过这样的想法，但当时没人注意到它。
The idea had occurred more than 100 years earlier to a Dutch guy named von Boxhorn but no one noticed his ideas at the time.
许多年前，在“动量，热量和物质转移”考试中，就有下面这一道题。
In May a few years ago, the "Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer" exam paper contained the question.
他表示：“在英国，40年前就有公司牧师了。
我经商时犯了很多错误；这篇文章包含了我希望在十年前就有人能够提醒我的事情。
I've made some major mistakes in business; this article contains things I wish someone had told me ten years ago.
七年前成立的洲际交易所，就有包括高盛、摩根·士丹利在内的强大的华尔街公司撑腰。
ICE, which was founded seven years ago, is backed by powerful Wall Street firms, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
能否进入普林斯顿大学念书并非性命交关的事——时任《纽约时代周刊》的编辑洛伦•普柏在几年前就有了这种看法。
That getting into Princeton isn't a life-or-death matter hit home years ago for Loren Pope, then the education editor of The New York Times.
这比30年前高了12倍。 如果包括尚未诊断的病例，那就是每64个孩子中就有一个孩子在生活的某个时期需要支持和服务。
This is about 12 times higher than 30 years ago; including the previously undiagnosed cases, this means that one in 64 children may at some point in their lives require support and services.
这种事两年前就有了，两年前，中国搞了一次反卫星武器试验，试验中有目的地摧毁了一颗中国自己的“风云—1号C”卫星。
This accident came two years after the deliberate destruction by the Chinese of their Fengyun-1C spacecraft in the test of an anti-satellite weapon.
早在近十年前就有人预料，热门剧集“老友记”的观众可很快通过遥控器上的几个预设按键，来购买与詹尼佛•安妮斯顿一样的羊毛衫。
Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of “Friends”, a popular sitcom, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston’s with a few taps on their remote control.
七年前孔子学院项目启动，全球大约开办了300所，非洲就有21所。
Since the Confucius Institute project started seven years ago, some 300 have opened around the globe - 21 in Africa.
这堆石块，不知作何用途，在三十年前就有了，肯定现在还在那里。
The heap of stones, destined for no one knows what employment, which was visible there thirty years ago, is doubtless still there.
如果我在十年前讲这节课，我会说基本归因错误,是人的普遍特性，是我们天生就有的，是人性的一个基本特征。
If I gave this lecture ten years ago, I would say that the fundamental attribution error i s a human universal, something that we're born with, a fundamental aspect of human nature.
起码在一百年前就有人有眼光看出整个世界快完蛋了！
At least a hundred years ago there was a man who had vision enough to see that the world was pooped out.
几年前就有人断言在一个越来越热的世界上，飓风会更频繁的出现。
A few years ago, it was claimed that hurricanes would become more frequent as well as more common in a warming world.
历史上就有这样的例子：在1980年前的9年，黄金的价格就上涨了23倍。
It wouldn't be the first time gold has risen in such a way: the price of gold jumped 23-fold in the nine years ending in 1980.
她再一次提到“30年前，1981年美国大学毕业生中就有50%是女性。”
She reminded us that "women became 50% of the college graduates in this country in 1981, thirty years ago."
中国与世博会的关系源远流长，一百年前就有中国人提出要在中国举办世博会。
China has enjoyed a long-term relationship with the World Expo. Some Chinese proposed hosting a World Expo in China back 100 years ago.
在两年前就有过一场争论，争论的焦点在于Rails框架及它缺乏内建模板语言的支持，还有是否要为Rails引入这样的模板语言。
There was a debate 2 years ago about Rails and its lack of a built in templating language, and whether one should be introduced.
50多年前，在我上大学的那个年代，就有不少的中国年轻学子向往到剑桥负笈求学。
Over fifty years ago when I was a university student, many young Chinese students were longing for an opportunity to come and study in Cambridge.
这是法夫郡的地图（我们现在住的地方就是法夫郡），我丈夫大概十五年前就有这张地图了，我们现在居然住在这里，真是不可思议。
The map is an old map of the Kingdom of Fife (where we now live) that my husband has had for 15 or odd years, so amazing that we are now there!)
令人惊讶的是，他们发现曾是蒙古帝国疆域，每12个人中就有一人携带追溯到千年前的蒙古基因的Y染色体。
To their astonishment, they found that one out of every twelve Asian men in regions once part of the Mongol empire carry a form of the y.
令人惊讶的是，他们发现曾是蒙古帝国疆域，每12个人中就有一人携带追溯到千年前的蒙古基因的Y染色体。
To their astonishment, they found that one out of every twelve Asian men in regions once part of the Mongol empire carry a form of the y.
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