Not so long ago, this ungainly partnership was faring poorly.
不久以前，这一笨拙的伙伴关系颇不走运。
Once upon a time, but not so long ago, Daisy and Lily were in the hospital.
从前，也不算太久之前，小菊和百合在医院里。
Remember not so long ago we looked at flux of a two-dimensional field of a curve.
记得之前我们曾经学过，二维空间中曲线的通量。
Those were such happy times and not so long ago. How I wondered where they'd gone!
那些真是快乐的时光，仿佛就发生在不远的身旁，我现在多想知道美好的时光都已去向何方。
Not so long ago, for most people, listening to the radio was a single task activity.
不久以前，对大多数人而言，听收音机是一项单一的活动。
For instance, not so long ago, many were predicting the death of the UNIX operating environment.
例如，不久前，很多人预言unix操作环境将死亡。
What immediately comes to mind is that a video I saw with an eight-year-old friend not so long ago.
我记起不久前跟一个八岁孩子，一起看的一部片子。
There was a time not so long ago when such news would have sent Chelsea fans into paroxysms of panic.
而就在此之前不久，这样的消息恐怕会让所有的切尔西球迷陷入突如其来的惊慌之中。
Not so long ago it might have been hard to find many executives who thought the euro zone would fracture.
不久之前，可能很少有高级经理人会认为欧元区会出问题。
NOT so long ago, most fund managers riding the private-equity wave were squeamish about appearing in public.
不久之前，大多数驾驭私人股权浪潮的经理人都还对出现在公开场合感到拘谨。
One has to wonder what each person is doing today, but I know what they are feeling – that was me not so long ago.
虽然很难了解别人每天都在干什么，但我知道他们都在想什么——因为我不久前也有同样感受。
Not so long ago, I would have thought new technology would have affected the electronics department or our dotcom business.
不久前我还会认为，新技术只会影响到电子部门或者我们的网站业务。
That's pretty forward thinking for a publication that, not so long ago, was still blocking access to their content on the Web.
对于出版物来讲，这种想法的确超前。记得不久前，它还在阻止访问网络内容。
Turns out Hayward, now 6-8, was a 5-11 junior tennis player not so long ago, competing in mixed doubles with his twin sister, Heather.
原来如今6英尺8英寸高的海沃德不久前还是一个5英尺11英寸的青少年网球选手，在混双比赛中和他的双胞胎姐姐希瑟搭档。
More recently, falling prices have been taken as a signal to flee, even though shares are much cheaper than they were not so long ago.
6近来，股价下滑，人们就认为，这是撤资信号，尽管现在的股价相比不久前便宜太多了。
Not so long ago this room, with its Arabic texts and Webster's dictionary, was for studious children. Now it is home to prisoners of war.
这间屋子和里面的阿拉伯语教科书以及韦氏词典本来是孩子们学习的乐园，现在成了战俘营。
Conservationists say this is a significant reversal in fortune of the tiger, which not so long ago was threatened with extinction in India.
环保人士称，不久前印度老虎还濒临灭绝，这一次是老虎命运的重大转折。
Thomas spent the first four years of his career seeking an opportunity, seeking acceptance. The NBA not so long ago was a regimented league.
托马斯在他职业生涯的前四年里都在寻求一个机会，寻求一个认可。NBA在不久以前还是个很传统老派的联盟。
Not so long ago, downtown shops could at least claim to offer an urban alternative to the strip malls and boxy stores dotted about the suburbs.
在市郊，各种带状的和块状的商业中心星罗棋布，不久前，市中心的商店还可以勉强分得一杯羹。
Give things names that are long and clear enough that you understand what they are, but not so long and awkward that they make the code less readable.
所给出的命名应该尽量长且足够清晰以便您能理解其含义，但也不能过长或太过怪异，如果这样，代码的可读性就会受到影响。
Not so long ago I was an expectant father. I had questions, a lot of questions actually, and what I found was very few good places to get answers.
不久以前我还是一名准爸爸。我有一些问题，事实上是许多问题，但是我鲜少找到好地方去得到答案。
In springtime, Florida becomes the host of a beachside bacchanal for college students, but not so long ago, it was a relatively low-key tourist destination.
春天的佛罗里达成了大学生狂欢的海滨胜地，不过不久之前，这儿还是个人气不怎么高的旅游景点。
Not so long ago, I came through this scribe to talk to you on his behalf and encourage you to stay the course and not be afraid for what you are about to encounter.
不久之前，我通过这个书写员代表他与你们交谈，鼓励你们保持航向，不要担心你们所要遭遇到的情形。
NOT SO long ago, prediction markets were being tipped as a fantastic new way to forecast everything from the completion date of a vital project to a firm’s annual sales.
不久之前，市场预测被描述为一种预报一切事物的极好方式，从重要项目的最终数据完成日期到公司每年的销售量。
Not so long ago, the weary tourist would head off on holiday for the simple pleasures of recharging their batteries, topping up their tan and relaxing on a sun-lounger.
以前，疲惫的游客还会为了享受自我充电、把皮肤晒成棕褐色和徜徉在日光浴浴床的乐趣而在节假日出行。
Not so long ago that would have been the preserve of an elite group of companies and institutions which had the necessary financial and technical clout to perform such feats.
而不久以前，能做到这一点的只有精英团体——拥有做出此等壮举所必需的财务和技术能力的公司和机构。
NOT so long ago, staff at Dresdner Kleinwort, the investment-banking arm of Dresdner, a German bank, used to refer to Commerzbank, a rival, as “Comedy bank”. No one is laughing now.
不久前，德瑞斯顿银行的投行分支德累斯顿-克莱沃特（DresdnerKleinwort）的员工谈及德国商业银行这一竞争对手时，还将其冠以“滑稽的银行”，但现在没人嘲笑德国商业银行了。
For example, the ostrich has plumage that is so constructed that the feathers are long but not too dense.
例如，鸵鸟的羽毛构造使它的羽毛长而不密。
It doesn't matter, so long as they're enjoyable, and not likely to have negative side effects, such as drinking too much alcohol or going on a wild spending spree if you're on a tight budget.
这没关系，只要它们是令人愉快的，而且不太可能有负面影响，比如喝酒过量或者在预算紧张的情况下疯狂消费。
It doesn't matter, so long as they're enjoyable, and not likely to have negative side effects, such as drinking too much alcohol or going on a wild spending spree if you're on a tight budget.
这没关系，只要它们是令人愉快的，而且不太可能有负面影响，比如喝酒过量或者在预算紧张的情况下疯狂消费。
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