Most of us spend much more time with digital media than we did a decade ago.
与十年前相比，我们大多数人在数字媒体上花的时间更多了。
A few years ago we did ask someone from the technologies department to fix it, but they never seemed to have the time.
几年前我们就向技术部门的人提出要把它修好，但他们好像一直都没时间。
"Th' last time I was here," rubbing his chin and looking round, "was about two year' ago."
“我上次来这里，”他摩挲着下巴，四下环顾一圈，“大约是两年前吧。”
I found this aspect of dance particularly fascinating during a brief time I spent in a rural village in Zimbabwe a few years ago.
几年前，我在津巴布韦的一个乡村度过了一段短暂的时光，在这段时光里我发现了舞蹈的迷人之处。
"That's the time you weren't well, wasn't it?"—"Yes, that's right, that was a week ago last Monday."
“就是那个时候你不舒服，是吗？”——“是的，就是一周前的星期一。”
Twenty-five years ago they filled a time capsule and buried it.
25年前，他们装满一个时光宝盒并把它埋了起来。
Compared to people living only a few generations ago, we have greater opportunities to have a good time.
与生活在仅仅几代之前的人相比，我们有更大的过得快乐的机会。
A more disturbing trend in America today is that teens are spending far less time reading than around four decades ago.
当今美国一个更令人不安的趋势是，青少年花在阅读上的时间比40年前要少得多。
Most people spend much more time interacting with digital media than they did ten years ago.
大多数人花在与数字媒体互动上的时间要比十年前多得多。
Nowadays, the average weekly screen time for children is twice as much as it was five years ago.
如今，孩子们平均每周看电子屏幕的时间是五年前的两倍。
Most of the time people chew their food slowly, as my mother taught me so many years ago.
大多数时候人们慢慢地咀嚼食物，就像许多年前我妈妈教我的那样。
Not long ago, when his cat died, he cried and understood grief for the first time.
不久前，他的猫死了，他哭了，这是他第一次理解悲伤。
The boy, who was homeless at the time, began learning the game less than a year ago.
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。
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.
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。
A long time ago, Francois Millet and I were young artists.
很久以前，弗朗索瓦·米勒和我都是年轻的艺术家。
A long time ago, there lived a wise man named Zun Nun in Egypt.
很久以前，在埃及住着一位名叫 Zun Nun的智者。
I did break a bone in my foot playing football a long time ago but that's all healed up now.
我很久以前踢足球的时候确实摔断了脚上的一根骨头，不过现在已经完全好了。
Turtles went back to the sea a very long time ago and, like all vertebrate returnees to the water, they breathe air.
海龟很久以前就回到了海里，和所有返回水中的脊椎动物一样，它们呼吸着空气。
Housewarming parties get their name from the fact that a long time ago people would actually bring firewood to a new home as a gift.
乔迁派对之所以得名，是因为很久以前人们会把柴火作为礼物带到新家。
Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession, but it is down by 640,000 (7.9 percent) from its year-ago level.
非自愿兼职的员工人数仍远高于经济衰退前的人数，但较上年同期减少了64万人，下降了7.9%。
Some time ago, Disney even put up their "10 new rules for being a modern princess".
前段时间，迪士尼甚至提出了“成为现代公主的10条新规则”。
The drift of the last glaciation was deposited during one of the most recent epochs of geologic time, the Pleistocene, which lasted from 1.8 million to 10,000 years ago.
最后一次冰川作用的漂浮物沉积在最近的其中一个地质时期——更新世，这段时期从180万年前持续到1万年前。
It was a few years ago, and I had taken a part-time holiday-season job in a video store at the local shopping mall.
那是几年前的事了，我在假期期间在当地购物中心的一家音像店做了一份兼职。
In 2015, the US Forest Service for the first time spent more than half of its $5.5 billion annual budget fighting fires—nearly double the percentage it spent on such efforts 20 years ago.
2015年，美国林务局首次使用55亿美元年度预算的一半以上用于灭火——这几乎是20年前火灾支出所占比例的两倍。
A long time ago, a father was old and sick.
很久以前，有一位父亲，他年事已高，还疾病缠身。
A long time ago, I wanted to give up learning Chinese.
很久以前，我曾想放弃学习中文。
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