他于本世纪开始的六年后出生，又在距离本世纪结束的十年前去世。
He was born six years after the century began, and died ten years before it ended.
这名当时无家可归的男孩，在不到一年前开始学习这种游戏。
The boy, who was homeless at the time, began learning the game less than a year ago.
自从一万年前农业开始发展以来，已有三分之一的树木被砍伐殆尽。
As much as a third of the total tree cover has been lost since agriculture began some 10,000 years ago.
三年前，当我开始在希尔克雷斯特高中工作时，我被介绍给了该校的校长沙伦·邓恩。
When I began working at Hillcrest High School three years ago, I was introduced to Sharon Dunn, the school's headmistress.
韦巴赫说，“游戏化”这个词以及对其广泛、有意识的应用直到五年前才真正开始。
The word "gamification" and the widespread, conscious application of the concept only began in earnest about five years ago, Werbach says.
两年前，我开始定期锻炼，体重从253磅降至健康的160磅，这是我唯一没有半途而废的事情。
I started exercising regularly two years ago and went from 253 pounds to a healthy 160 pounds and that is the only thing I did not give up halfway.
但Werbach说，“游戏化”这个词和这个概念的广泛、有意识的应用是在大约五年前才真正开始的。
But the word "gamification" and the widespread, conscious application of the concept only began in earnest about five years ago, Werbach says.
当夏威夷群岛从大约500万年前开始以火山的形式出现在海面上时，它们远离其他陆地板块。
When the Hawaiian Islands emerged from the sea as volcanoes, starting about five million years ago, they were far removed from other landmasses.
从一个移动中的飞机中跳出来可不像600年前文艺复兴发明家们开始测试降落伞那样具有革命意义。
Jumping out of a moving plane is not as revolutionary as it was 600 years ago when Renaissance inventors started experimenting with the parachute.
五千年前，埃及在尼罗河谷真正开始繁荣。
5,000 years ago, Egypt really began to flourish out in the Nile River valley.
在三十年前的早春，圣海伦斯山开始轰鸣。
In the early spring three decades ago, Mount St. Helens began to rumble.
大约5000年前，埃及人和其他近东地区的人开始将图画作为一种书写方式。
About 5,000 years ago the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as a kind of writing.
据说，在5000至6000年前，中东和北非的人们开始分配特定时间段来完成任务。
It is suggested that 5,000-6,000 years ago people in the Middle East and North Africa started to allot specific lengths of time to tasks.
公元1000年前后，印度西北部的人开始向西旅行。
Around the year 1000 A.D., some people from Northwest India began to travel westwards.
太空地质学家猜测这些陡坡是在几十亿年前当行星表面冷却收缩时开始形成的。
Astrogeologists suspect that these scarps having formed billions of years ago as the planet's surface cooled and shrank.
两年前，随着阿尔菲和典当等其他餐厅在4月份开业，现代英国美食开始进军香港。
With the opening of Alfie's in April, and others such as The Pawn, two years ago, modern British food has made its way to Hong Kong.
建筑行业是从30年前才开始有信心建造超过12层楼高的钢筋混凝土结构的办公大楼。
It was only thirty years ago that the building industry felt confident enough to erect office blocks of steel and reinforced concrete that had more than a dozen floors.
大约100年前，给孩子们零花钱的做法在美国开始流行。
The practice of paying children an allowance became popular in America about 100 years ago.
十年前，光滑的塑料雪橇开始流行起来；它们比木制雪橇跑得快，但是很难操控，也很慢。
Ten years ago, smooth plastic sleds became popular; they go faster than wooden sleds but are harder to steer and slow.
他配备着两个月的普通话课程开始了这次旅行——这是十二年前学的了。
He started the trip equipped with two months of Mandarin lessons—taken more than 12 years before.
57英尺长，9吨重，棘龙在大约1亿年前的白垩纪早期就开始四处活动。
Fifty-seven feet long and up to nine tons, spinosaurus started poking his head around the early Cretaceous some 100 million years ago.
三年前，当清理工作刚开始时，垃圾随处可见；但今年，青少年们不得不主动去寻找垃圾。
Three years ago, when the clean-up started, garbage was everywhere, but this year, the teenagers had to hunt for garbage.
"护士认为我的举止很奇怪，直到有一天，皮拉尔太太在我开始与她一起工作时开心地笑了——就像她几年前和我一起工作的那样。
The nurse thought that my action was very strange until one day Mrs. Pillar smiled happily as I began working with her—just as she had worked with my years before.
多年前他第一次在花园里吃芦笋和胡萝卜的记忆，让他开始在自己褐石屋的屋顶上种植农产品。
Memories of the first asparagus and carrots he ate from a garden years before led him to start growing product on the roof of his brownstone.
例如，John Mogger三年前开始关注文盲问题，所以他开始在巴西对五名囚犯进行教学。
For example, John Mogger became concerned about the problem of illiteracy three years ago, so he started teaching five prisoners in Brazil.
几年前，她开始对鸡蛋产生兴趣，并学习传统乌克兰技术，来画出现代感十足的角色。
Several years ago, she became interested in eggs and learned the traditional Ukrainian technique to draw her very modern characters.
直到大约30年前，这种鞋才开始消失。
It was until about 30 years ago, the shoes began to die out.
这要从30年前的一只松鼠开始。
几年前，一位老人开始沿着河岸收集垃圾。
An old man began to collect rubbish along the river banks years ago.
早在4000多年前，人们就已经开始用它来算术。
People started using it more than 4,000 years ago to do maths.
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