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。
About a year ago, when Phil last had a hospital appointment, the men in green arrived said they were not licensed to use the hoist to get Phil off the bed.
大约一年前，当菲尔最后一次去医院预约的时候，那些穿绿衣服的人来了，他们说他们没有得到许可使用提升机把菲尔从床上弄下来。
A few years ago a new buyer could get a loan by putting down just 10% of a house's value; today he must come up with something closer to 25%.
前些年新购房者还可以抵押房产的10%来获得贷款，但是到了今天抵押房产的数额就已经接近25%了。
More than a decade ago, Congress set up a formula that governs how doctors get paid by the Medicare program.
十多年前，国会设立了一套方案来管理医生如何获取医保计划的补偿。
Years ago, I promised myself that when I retired I would get a chocolate poodle to share my golden years.
多年前，我就决意，退休时要找条巧克力色的卷毛狗与我共度美好的晚年。
It was not that long ago. Who is to say how bad things can get today? We will see, and we will watch things closely.
不久以前。谁能说今天的境况能有多坏呢？走着瞧吧，我们将近距离观察。
A few years ago I was starting to get a lot of eyestrain, to the point where I was being fitted for glasses with a very low focusing-like prescription.
几年前，我开始感到眼睛疲劳，直到配戴具有低度对焦功能的眼镜。
As Scott McNealy, a cofounder of Sun Microsystems, put it famously 10 years ago: “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”
正如司各特·麦克尼利，太阳微系统的创始人之一，10年前所说的名言那样：“无论如何你都没什么隐私可言，那就别介意算了。”
Instead of setting these goals for the end of my life (which I did several years ago), I get excited about all these things, right now, and do them every day because I'm excited about them.
我感受当下所有这些激动的事情而不是为我生命的结束设置目标(这是我几年前做的事情)，并因为我为它们激动而每天做这些事情。
Regulations are more transparent than they were just five years ago, and in most situations you no longer need inside pull to get permits.
与五年前相比，这里的制度更加透明，而且在绝大多数情况下，你不在需要从对方内部得到通行证。
Hundred of years ago, man had a hard life and was never able to get enough to eat.
几百年前，人类过着一种艰难的生活，从来都不能得到足够的食物吃。
That’s why, when I moved to Washington five years ago to attend graduate school at Georgetown, I resolved to get a job with Senator Edward Kennedy.
这就是为什么在五年前搬到华盛顿乔治敦读研时，我设法从爱德华·肯尼迪议员那里获得了一个工作机会。
Mr Thomas says: “A lie told 20 years ago to get a job can become part of the liar's reality.
托马斯表示：“一个在20年前为得到某份工作而撒下的谎，可以变成说谎者现实生活的一部分。
It's also worth remembering that our planet started to get "radio noisy" when we started transmitting radio and television signals about 100 years ago.
值得注意的是，我们的星球开始接收到无线电噪音是在大约100年前当我们开始传播无线电波和电视信号的时候。
It has taken a global financial crisis to get some countries to revamp their bankruptcy laws, but Mexico did so ten years ago.
有些国家遭受到全球金融危机才开始修改他们的破产法律，但墨西哥十年前就修改了。
Too many investors rushed to 'get on board' 10 years ago, and paid the price.
10年前有太多的投资者急匆匆地入了市，他们因此付出了代价。
The process is called alkaline hydrolysis and was developed in this country 16 years ago to get rid of animal carcasses.
这种处理方法叫做碱解法，而且16年前就已经在这个国家用来处理动物的尸体。
And the Swede was keen to bury once and for all the suggestion that he and Nadal do not get on, following an acrimonious match at Wimbledon three years ago.
瑞典人同时也一次澄清了他和纳达尔关系不好的传言，这起于三年前在温布尔顿的一场艰苦的比赛。
That used to be a fairly typical morning for me about 7 years ago, madly running around trying to get out the door.
这对于7年前的我来说是一个相当典型的早间生活，发狂地四处找齐东西好出门。
They're the best books I've read on lucid dreaming... and the ones that helped me get started more than 11 years ago.
它们是我读过的有关清醒梦的最好的书籍，也是它们在11年前帮助我开始做清醒梦。
Why should I go back to the place she had taken so many pains to run away from sixty years ago to get to Manila?
我为什么要回到这个她在六十年前废了千辛万苦才离开去马尼拉的地方呢？
Years ago I would be very happy to get a computer without an Internet connection because I didn't know how good the Internet is.
几年前，我能有一台没有联网的电脑也会很高兴，因为我不知道互联网到底有多好。
A buyer from France can get the same pair for about 80 Euros; just two years ago she would have had to spend 102 Euros.
一位法国购物者花80欧元能够买一副同样的太阳镜，如果是两年前，她要花102欧元。
A few weeks ago I made a last-ditch effort to get my son to make his bed in the morning.
几周前，我决定为了要让我的儿子早上叠被子进行最后一搏。
As part of Williams' treatment, Dr. Oz flew Williams to New York just a few weeks ago to get her blood work.
作为她疗程的一部分，威廉姆斯在几周前飞往纽约进行血液检查。
Two decades ago, Mr Murdoch used the cashflow from newspapers to get into television and film.
二十年前，默多克用现金从报纸业进入影视业。
Two decades ago, Mr Murdoch used the cashflow from newspapers to get into television and film.
二十年前，默多克用现金从报纸业进入影视业。
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