The grain was still sown, cut and threshed as it was a hundred years ago.
谷物的播种、收割、脱粒方法还和一百年前一样。
He phoned me five minutes ago to say he was stopping for a hair-cut on his way home.
他五分钟前打电话给我，说他在回家中途去剪个头发。
Two weeks ago, the tree was nearly cut into firewood.
两周前，这棵树差点被砍成柴火。
Many years ago, there were a lot more bamboo forests and pandas in China, but then humans started to cut down the forests.
许多年前，中国有很多的竹林和熊猫，但后来人类开始砍伐这些竹林。
Not long ago, he found that the bluebirds were nesting in the dead trees which were often cut down, so he began to make bluebird boxes for the birds in order to save them.
不久前，他发现蓝知更鸟在枯树上筑巢，而这些枯树往往会被人们砍去，于是他开始为这些鸟制作蓝知更鸟箱，以拯救它们。
A hundred and fifty years ago, a plainsman could kill an American bison, cut out only the tongue for his dinner.
一百五十年前，平地居民杀死野牛，只割下牛舌头做晚餐。
Carmakers that only weeks ago cut shifts and working hours are now thought to be considering recalling workers.
前几周还削减轮班和工时的汽车制造商们现在正重新考虑招募员工。
A few days ago, I accidently cut my arm, and that cut appears to be healing normally as well.
几天前我的手臂被不小心划伤了，不过伤口还是像往常一样很快的愈合了。
Locking lots of people up, for example, may well have helped cut crime a decade ago.
比如，把很多人关起来，十年前也许有助于减少犯罪。
It cut rates as the financial sector started to wobble, as it did in 1998, even though just a few weeks ago the Fed was worried about inflationary pressures.
当时的1998年，尽管美联储在几周前还在为通胀压力而担忧，但由于金融部门开始出现的不稳定而削减利率。
Living conditions are hard in this concrete, steel and glass urban jungle, that has been cut away from nature a long time ago, with pollution reaching truly alarming levels.
在这个混凝土，钢铁和玻璃的都市丛林中，很久以前就与大自然无缘，污染达到令人震惊的程度，生活条件极为艰苦。
Home owners with this kind of loan will have benefited from yesterday's rate cut, although trackers being taken out today are more expensive than a few months ago.
使用这种贷款的购房者将会受益于昨天的降息，尽管今天的跟踪按揭贷款比几个月前要贵一些。
One Texas banker wrote me about his bad decision to cut his own firewood a few years ago.
德克·萨斯一位银行家写信讲了他几年前的一个错误决定：自己锯木柴。
A few days ago, he says, somebody apparently cut fine slits in the rear tires of his car.
他说，几天前，有人显然在他的轿车后轮胎划上了细口。
Gouge marks in animal bones suggest human ancestors used stones to cut meat 3.4m years ago. Photograph: Dikika Research Project/PA
动物骨头上的凿痕表明，人类祖先在340万年以前就开始使用石头去切割肉类。
Almost five years ago, America's Congress cut research funding for a controversial bunker-busting nuke called the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator.
几乎就在五年前，美国国会削减了一种引起争议的掩体核弹——坚实型核钻地弹——的研究经费。
The price war broke out a week ago, when the largest US retailer, Wal-Mart, cut some pre-order prices to $10.
这场价格战爆发于一个星期前。当时，美国最大的零售商沃尔玛把一些预定书的价格降到了10美元一本。
Three years ago Mr Morales banned imports of the oldest among these smoke-belching jalopies, to cut air pollution and traffic congestion.
三年前，莫拉莱斯出台禁令禁止进口排放浓烟的旧车以减少空气污染和缓解交通拥堵。
Since I first read about such issues a few years ago, I've drastically cut back on the products I use - eliminating things like perfume, nail polish, mascara, and fancy skin creams.
既然我在几年前就第一次阅读到了这些问题，所以我已经大量消减了所使用的产品——去掉了一些像是香水、指甲油、睫毛膏和钟爱的润肤霜。
The increase reclaimed the cut made a year ago when the bank lowered the rate to 4.5%.
一年前该银行将其利率降到了4.5%，本次升息弥补了上次的削减。
The area's extremely poor. Logging was banned there 12 years ago, but people continued to cut down and sell trees on the mountainside to make a living.
该地区极度贫困，因而尽管12年前伐木已明令禁止，当地居民仍在山坡上砍树并将木材出售以维持生计。
Two months ago financial markets were sure that the Fed, for all its hawkish talk, would soon cut rates.
两个月前，金融市场还曾确信美联储虽然措辞强硬，但不久便会减息。
The village elder who directed the cutting said that the last time they caught a shark as big as this was three years ago, and they had to use an axe to cut through the bone and separate the head.
那位指挥切割的老渔民告诉我，还是在三年前，他们也曾捕到这样大的鲨鱼，不得不用斧子砍断鱼骨，把鱼骨、鱼头砍下来。
Artest compared joining the Jets to taking a pay cut to play for the Lakers two years ago.
阿泰斯特将加盟喷气机队比作两年前降薪加盟湖人。
Archaeologists revised the date after spotting distinctive cut and crush marks made by stone tools on animal bones dating to 3.4m years ago.
考古学家在辨认出340万年前的动物骨头上，存在石器工具造成的明显变形的切割痕迹后，修改了人类最早使用工具的时间。
A year ago, Russia's Gazprom cut off gas supplies to Ukraine when it refused to pay its bills in full, and gas to the E.U. was reduced sharply.
1年前，因乌克兰拒绝全额支付天然气费用，俄罗斯天然气公司中断对乌克兰的供给，且大幅削减对欧盟国家的天然气供应量。was reduced sharply。
Former Marie Claire editor Liz Jones wrote in the Daily Mail in August 2008, "When I wrote about how old is too old for a miniskirt a decade ago, the cut-off point was 25."
嘉人杂志前编辑Liz Jones2008年8月曾经在《每日邮报》上写道：“当我二十年前写关于女人多大就不能穿迷你裙的文章时，分界点是25岁。”
Former Marie Claire editor Liz Jones wrote in the Daily Mail in August 2008, "When I wrote about how old is too old for a miniskirt a decade ago, the cut-off point was 25."
嘉人杂志前编辑Liz Jones2008年8月曾经在《每日邮报》上写道：“当我二十年前写关于女人多大就不能穿迷你裙的文章时，分界点是25岁。”
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