Long ago up north on the Island of Berk, the young Viking, Hiccup, wants to join his town's fight against the dragons that continually raid their town.
很久以前在北方博克岛上，维京少年小嗝嗝想加入到镇上与龙战斗的队伍中去，此前那些龙持续不断的袭击他们的城镇。
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。
You see I bought this personal stereo at your shop three days ago, and I'm afraid it hasn't really matched up to what I was told about it.
你看，我三天前在你们店里买了这台立体声音响，但它恐怕和你告诉我的不太一样。
I started with Hoover 26 years ago in sales and rose up through the ranks.
我26年前加入胡佛公司作销售，而后一步步晋升。
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。
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。
Among consumers, only 18% are aware that ecofashion exists, up from 6% four years ago.
在消费者中，只有18%的人意识到生态时尚的存在，相比四年前的6%有所上升。
Among consumers, only 18% are aware that eco-fashion exists, up from 6% four years ago.
在消费者中，只有18%的人意识到生态时尚的存在，这一数字相比四年前的6%有所上升。
Fifty-seven feet long and up to nine tons, spinosaurus started poking his head around the early Cretaceous some 100 million years ago.
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。
Moments ago, he got up to carry my bag for me and went into the cold open air.
片刻之前，他站起来替我拿包，走到寒冷的户外。
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。
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”。
Sailors took note of this long ago, and came up with a saying: "The farther the sight, the nearer the rain."
水手们很久以前就注意到了这一点，并想出了一句谚语：“看得越远，雨越近。”
Three years ago, when the clean-up started, garbage was everywhere, but this year, the teenagers had to hunt for garbage.
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。
Four years ago, Joel Kline gave up his job as a magazine editor to become a freelance copywriter for advertisements, but now he had money trouble.
四年前，乔尔·克莱恩放弃了杂志编辑的工作，成为了一名自由广告撰稿人，但现在他遇到了资金问题。
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.
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。
You'll never guess what happened to me! A couple of weeks ago, I decided to take up yoga.
你绝对猜不到我发生了什么事！几周前，我决定开始练习瑜伽。
Brigida had seen Deta walking up the footpath a short while ago and soon they guessed what had happened.
布丽吉特刚才看见迪蒂走在小路上，没多久他们就猜到发生了什么事。
As long ago as 1982, researchers came up with something called the CFQ—the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire.
早在1982年，研究人员就提出了所谓的CFQ 的概念，即认知失败问卷。
One of the dullest boys at a village school, more than thirty years ago, went up to repeat his lesson one morning; and, as usual, did not know it.
三十多年前，在一所乡村学校里，有一个十分愚笨的男孩，一天早上他上去复习他的功课；和往常一样，他都不懂。
A long time ago, I wanted to give up learning Chinese.
很久以前，我曾想放弃学习中文。
Many years ago, Bonnier, a Swedish publisher, set up a newspaper in the former Soviet countries.
许多年前，瑞典出版商邦尼集团在前苏联国家创办了一份报纸。
Over ten years ago, a family of beavers turned up in a part of the river Otter, in Devon.
十多年前，德文郡水獭河中出现了一个海狸家族。
Five years ago, a research showed that 85% of the old backpacks ended up in rubbish.
五年前，一项研究表明，85%的旧背包最终被扔进了垃圾桶。
No one keeps an exact count, but rough calculations based on the government's survey suggest that perhaps 1,600 American public and private schools are teaching Chinese, up from 300 or so a decade ago.
没有人知道确切的数字，但是根据政府的调查，粗略计算之后显示，大约有1600所美国公立和私立学校在教授中文，而十年前只有300所左右。
Many years ago, a little girl named Collin Rose decided that when she grew up, she would offer a warm home to those sick and homeless children.
许多年前，一个叫科林·罗斯的小女孩决定长大后要为那些生病和无家可归的孩子们提供一个温暖的家。
As soon as the TV program came out more than 30 years ago, Western children became interested in reading this story because the clever Monkey King keeps fighting to help the weak and never gives up.
30多年前，这个电视节目一播出，西方的孩子们就对这个故事产生了兴趣，因为聪明的孙悟空一直努力帮助弱者，从不放弃。
A few years ago, we started this kind of "favor war" where one of us would do something kind for the other, such as cleaning up the driveway or building a shed, and next time the other would try to top it with another favor.
几年前，我们开始了这种“人情战”，我们中的一个人会为另一个人做一些好事，比如清理车道或搭建棚子，下次另一个人就会试图用另一个人情来顶上。
A few years ago policemen set up hundreds of checkpoints under American tutelage.
几年前，在美国托管时期，警察建起了大量检查站。
A community which a century ago made up almost 40% of the city's population now lives chiefly in fading memories.
一世纪以前，一个社区常常可以占有该城市40%的人口，而现在，那些生活业慢慢褪色，变为记忆。
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