He smoking. But a year ago he 100 cigarettes a week.
他已经戒烟了。一年前，他每周抽100支香烟。
A year ago he was much more talkative, and answered my questions with some enthusiasm.
一年以前他还是比较健谈的，回答我的问题时十分热心。
A year ago he explored the idea of a print edition, but France's unionised distribution system made the costs prohibitive.
一年前他曾想出版印刷版，但因为法国联合分销体系使成本太高而作罢。
Eboue has turned the crowd around and that shows a lot of maturity and defiance because a year ago he could have been walking out the door.
埃布埃挽回了球迷的心，这反映出了他极大的成熟和不屈的精神。因为就在一年之前，他甚至差点离队。
A year ago he set out to explain one of the most daunting books in the English language-james Joyce's "Ulysses" -line by line on the Internet.
一年前他开始在互联网上酌字酌句的解释迄今为止英语文学里最晦涩难懂，令人费解的作品之一- - -詹姆斯·乔伊斯的《尤利西斯》。
But a year ago he warned that its fast growth had led to what he called the watering down of the Starbucks experience. Some neighborhoods have a Starbucks on every block or two.
但是，一年前他警告快速的增长已导致被称为“星巴克体验的淡化”，一些邻近地区每一到两个街区就有一家星巴克。
About one year ago, he got this new piece of tech which is like a test tube.
大约一年前，他得到了这个像试管一样的新技术。
When the magistrate asked Wang what had happened, he answered, "Zhou said that there were fresh red dates in it when he gave me the jar a year ago." The magistrate examined the jar and the fresh red dates in it carefully. Then he said: "Bring the ingots back, Wang Wu!" How did the county magistrate infer that Wang was lying?
县令问王是怎么回事，王回答说：“一年前给我的时候，周说这罐子里有新鲜的红枣。”县令仔细地检查了坛子和里面新鲜的红枣。然后他说：“王五，把金锭拿回来！”县令是怎么推断王在撒谎的？
A couple of years ago film-maker David Bond realized that his children, then aged five and three, were attached to screens to the point where he was able to say "chocolate" into his three-year-old son's ear without getting a response.
几年前，电影制作人大卫·邦德意识到他的两个孩子（当时分别是5岁和3岁）都离不开屏幕，以至于他对着3岁的儿子的耳朵说“巧克力”都没有回应。
When he found there was nothing in Alex's box, the king smiled and said to the others, "One year ago, I gave everyone a seed which couldn't grow. But all of you, except Alex, have brought me flowers."
当国王发现亚历克斯的盒子里空空如也的时候，他笑着对其他人说：“一年前，我给了每个人一粒不能生长的种子。但除了亚历克斯，你们所有人都给我带来了花。”
During a rare phone conversation about a year and a half ago he tried to sell me his computer; the time before that, his shoes.
在一年半以前的一次电话里，他试着卖给我他的电脑，这之前他还想卖给我他的鞋子。
He agreed to it once before, a year and a half ago, more, canceling at the last moment.
他曾经也这样做过，一年半之前，但最后的时刻又取消了决定。
His father and wife died in a car accident a year ago, and he has two sons, aged 10 and 11.
他的父亲和妻子在一年前的一场车祸中不幸丧生，他还有两个儿子，分别为10岁和11岁。
Dr Hwang provoked a flurry of excitement a year ago when he published a paper in Science that claimed to have cloned human embryos from embryonic stem cells.
一年前，黄博士在《科学》杂志上发表论文，宣称他已使用胚胎干细胞克隆出了人类胚胎，这在当时激起了一片兴奋。
After winning most seats in a general election a year ago, Ms Livni refused to join a coalition with Mr Netanyahu, partly because he would not negotiate over Jerusalem.
在一年前赢得大选中多数席位后，利夫尼女士拒绝加入内塔尼亚胡的联盟，部分原因是由于内塔尼亚胡不会在耶路撒冷问题上谈判。
I know now that the man who sat with me on the old wooden stairs that hot summer night over thirty-five years ago was not a tall man. But to a five-year-old, he was a giant.
现在，我知道三十五年多前那个炎热的夏夜和我坐在旧木楼梯上的那个男人个子并不高，但是对于一个五岁的孩子来说，他就是个巨人。
Executives began talking about making changes nearly a year ago, he said, but the recent recall problems have spurred the company to act.
他说，高管们一年前就开始讨论进行调整，不过是最近的召回事件刺激公司付诸行动。
Ferguson was adamant that this season Dimitar Berbatov and Wayne Rooney would be used as out and out centre-forwards, although he said this about Rooney a year ago.
弗格森已经打定主意，贝尔巴托夫和鲁尼将是新赛季的正印前锋，但早在一年前他就许诺让鲁尼打主力前锋了。
A year ago she would have looked him in the eye and told him he was on thin ice.
如果在一年前，她就会瞪着他，告诉他这样做是想自讨苦吃。
Mr Kan has slumped to his lowest level of popularity since he took office just over a year ago.
而菅直人的民众支持率也从去年上任以来降低到了最低点。
Zhang began checking real estate listings in his neighborhood a year and a half ago. He was stunned.
一年半前小张开始关注周边的房产价格，他惊呆了。
About a year ago, he divorced his wife, who raised two children in the same town.
一年前离了婚，前妻带两个孩子也住在这镇里。
Mr Rove said that he first considered quitting a year ago and that he planned to spend more time with his family.
罗夫表示，他一年前就考虑过退休，把更多的心思花在家人身上。
He was kidnapped while walking to work just over a year ago by suspected al-Qaida members.
一年前，他在上班途中由于疑似基地成员而被劫持。
America's competitiveness problem has been a constant themeof Mr Paulson's time at the Treasury, which he joined a year ago after runningGoldman Sachs.
自保尔森1年前离开高盛就任财长以来对美国（公司）竞争力问题就一直保持关注。
America's competitiveness problem has been a constant themeof Mr Paulson's time at the Treasury, which he joined a year ago after runningGoldman Sachs.
自保尔森1年前离开高盛就任财长以来对美国（公司）竞争力问题就一直保持关注。
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