Wowzers. Here's a list from a week ago of the leading candidates
一周前关于候选人的名单
But the failure nearly two years ago of torcetrapib, an experimental drug from Pfizer, spotlighted the risks of using drugs without long-term data.
差不多就在两年前，辉瑞公司一个试验性的药物torcetrapib的失败，使人们意识到没有长期资料支持就使用药品的风险。
The deaths in Libya a week ago of British filmmaker Tim Hetherington and American photographer Chris Hondros highlighted the peril inseparable from recording conflict.
一周前英国电影制片人蒂姆·海瑟林顿和美国摄影记者克里斯·洪德罗斯在利比亚的遇难凸显了记录冲突本身所固有的危险。
Since his grudging acceptance two years ago of the two-state principle, Israel’s prime minister has shown no eagerness or flexibility in his purported pursuit of a deal.
两年前内坦尼亚胡不情愿地接受“两国原则”，从那以后，他在如何达成协议问题上，没有表现出多大愿望和灵活性。
In real terms the cost of driving is cheaper than a decade ago.
驾车的实际花费比10年前要少。
He says the death of his father 18 months ago has given him a new perspective on life.
他说１８个月前他父亲的去世使他对人生产生了新的看法。
I had a monumental run-in with him a couple of years ago.
我几年前和他大吵过一场。
The state of Liberia was formed a century and a half ago by freed slaves from the United States.
利比里亚国家是一个半世纪前由来自美国的获得自由的奴隶建立的。
Here again, Japanese master builders of a thousand years ago anticipated concepts of modern structural engineering.
在这里，一千多年前的日本建筑大师们又一次预见了现代结构工程的概念。
Up until a few decades ago, our visions of the future were largely—though by no means uniformly—glowingly positive.
直到几十年前，我们对未来的看法大体上还是积极热切的，尽管不完全是一致的。
Then one day a few years ago, out of my mouth came a sentence that would eventually become my reply to any and all provocations: I don't talk about that anymore.
几年前的某一天，我说过一句话，这句话最终成为了我对任何挑衅的回应：我不再谈论那件事了。
The English-Chinese dictionary my father bought for me many years ago is still of great help.
我父亲多年前给我买的英汉词典仍然很有用。
The retractions follow a separate one, two years ago, of a paper by Dr. Buck that was published in the journal Nature in 2001.
本次撤回事件发生的两年之前，巴克博士已经撤回了一篇2001年发表在《自然》杂志上的论文。
He seems to have had a lot of respect for older people, and even though he lived over two thousand years' ago, some of his opinions are still meaningful.
他似乎很尊敬老人，虽然他生活在两千多年前，但他的一些观点仍然很有意义。
He came to this country 20 years ago and is the archetype of the successful Asian businessman.
他20年前来到这个国家，是成功的亚裔商人的典型。
He fought with the urge to smoke one of the cigars he'd given up a while ago.
他克制自己的烟瘾，不去想刚才没吸的那支雪茄。
Two years ago he published a collection of short stories called "Facing The Music."
两年前，他出版了一本题为《愿赌服输》的短篇小说集。
Mechanization happened years ago on the farms of Islay.
机械化数年前在艾莱的农场实现了。
His father took over the tenancy of the farm 40 years ago.
他父亲40年前承租了这个农场。
The industrial revolution, which started a couple of hundred years ago in Europe, is now spreading across the world.
几百年前始于欧洲的工业革命现在正向全世界扩散。
Two years ago, he signed over his art collection to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
两年前，他签字把他的艺术收藏品转让给了纽约大都会艺术博物馆。
Fears are growing for the safety of a teenager who disappeared a week ago.
大家对那一周前失踪少年的安危越来越担忧。
A cup of rice which cost thirty cents a few weeks ago is now being sold for up to one dollar.
几周前价值30美分的1杯米如今卖到了1美元。
There was a vicious and vitriolic attack on him in one of the Sunday newspapers two weeks ago.
两周前的一份周日报纸上刊登了一篇对他进行尖酸刻薄攻击的文章。
Nealy disappeared two days ago, several miles away from any of the fighting.
尼利两天前失踪了，离任何一个战场都有几英里。
She had a sort of breakdown some years ago, and since then she has been very shy.
她几年前曾遭遇精神崩溃，从那以后她一直怯生生的。
Six months ago America's worst civil disorder in more than 100 years erupted in the city of Los Angeles.
6个月前，美国100多年来最严重的市民骚乱在洛杉矶市爆发了。
One of the prisoners is a self-proclaimed racist who opened fire on a crowd four years ago.
其中一名囚犯恬不知耻地自称是种族主义者，他曾在四年前向人群开枪射击。
Until a few months ago few people outside the arcane world of contemporary music had heard of Gorecki.
直至几个月前，现代音乐神秘世界之外只有少数人听说过戈莱斯基。
Five years ago the making of such a programme would have been unthinkable.
五年前，制作这种电视节目是难以想象的。
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