Only a decade ago, the place was exurban rice paddies and lychee orchards.
十年前，这个地方只是一个城市的远郊，种植水稻和荔枝。
But what was, only a decade ago, a desultory campaign against the disease now looks like a determined assault.
但是就在10年前，应对该疾病所采取的行动还是散乱的，如今似乎变成了坚定的战斗。
The overall cost of entry — taking into account the cost of training needed only a decade ago and now no longer necessary — has not so much dropped as evaporated.
考虑到十年前你还需要花费受训费而现在那已经不需要了，网络的入场费就像被蒸发掉一样，所剩无几。
Only a decade ago, measles killed millions of children each year and affected 30 million more, leaving many with life-long disabilities like blindness and brain damage.
仅在十年前，麻疹每年就造成几百万儿童死亡，使3000万儿童受染，给众多儿童带来诸如失明和脑损伤的终身残疾。
The dollar accounts for 65% of the world's foreign-exchange reserves (see chart), only slightly less than a decade ago and well ahead of the euro's 26% share.
美元在世界外汇交易储备中占65%(见图)，这个比例只比十年前下降了少许，并依然大大领先于欧元所占的26%的比例。
The world's only freshwater porpoise is down to fewer than 1800 individuals, less than half the estimated population a decade ago.
这种世界唯一的淡水豚的数量已经锐减到1800头以下，现在的数量还不到十年前估计数量的一半。
America's total saving rate fell in the third quarter of last year to only 10% of GDP, barely half its level a decade ago.
美国的整体储蓄率在去年的第三季度下降到只占GDP的10%，几乎是十年之前的一半。
A decade ago this scenario was brought up only in sardonic jokes.
十年之前这种情景只有在讽刺的玩笑中才会被提及。
And while a decade ago the Chinese were serious contenders in only a handful of sports like ping pong and diving, in Athens they competed in every sport except for baseball and equestrian events.
十年前，中国人只有在乒乓球和跳水等少数项目上是严肃的竞争者，但在雅典，他们在除了垒球和马术赛事的所有项目上竞争。
In other words, investors who bought stocks more than a decade ago have no capital gains to show for it, only dividends (and yields have been low throughout).
换句话说，那些十多年前买入股票的投资者除了股息(其收益率一直很低)之外没有获得任何资本收益。
But this is a choice that could not have existed even a decade ago; it is one that could emerge only in the strange confluences of Flight 447.
但在十年前，这个选择题根本就不会存在，问题只会是关于法航447航班的奇怪问题的集合。
More than a decade ago, the mobile phone was a luxury for only a few, but now it is very common.
十几年前，手机只是少数人才能使用的奢侈品，但现在手机已很普遍。
So scientists not only predicted how hot this year was likely to be six months ago, they forecast a decade ago just how much the world would heat up 10 years later.
如此看来，科学家们不仅在六个月前预言了今年可能热到什么程度，而且在十年前预言了十年后世界气温将升高多少。
More than a decade ago, the mobile phone was a luxury for only a few, but now it is very common. The rapid spread of the mobile phone is perhaps one of the great miracles of our time.
十几年前，手机只是少数人才能使用的奢侈品，但现在手机已很普遍。手机的快速普及也许是我们时代的伟大奇迹之一。
More than a decade ago, BP's solution to connecting with local people in Indonesia might have seemed necessary only in extreme situation.
十多年前，BP与印尼当地社会进行互动的那种方式可能只在极端情况下才需要。
A decade ago, if an ambitious Chinese professional wanted an MBA, practically the only option would have been to go abroad.
在十年之前，如果一位很有雄心壮志的中国职业经理想获得MBA教育，唯一实际的可选方案是出国深造。
The Guide establishes that Maridun was discovered by the Empire "a decade ago," meaning it only existed on Imperial charts within 10 years before Star Wars: Episode IV a New Hope.
《指南》指明马里登由帝国在“十年前”发现，也就是说，它出现在帝国星图上的时间，顶多在星球大战第四部曲《新希望》之前不过十年。
It may only be set a decade and a half ago, but the intense stylishness of Jia's images makes it glamorously remote, reinforcing the idea that our steps through the past can't be retraced.
电影不过设置在十五年前，但贾樟柯电影画面强烈的风格营造出绚丽迷人的过往感觉；我们回顾过往的步伐是无法重溯的，影片强化了这一观点。
If an ambitious Chinese professional wanted an MBA a decade ago, practically the only option was to go abroad.
十年前，如果一个雄心勃勃的中国职场人想获得MBA学位，惟一的选择就是出国。
More than a decade years ago, I got a bank note that not only signed a person's name, but also covered his fingerprints.
十几年前我曾经拿到一张钞票，上面写着某个人的名字，还盖着手印。
Of the American firms in the Fortune Global 500, 15% are family firms- only slightly less than a decade ago.
在世界500强名单中，15%的美国公司都是家族企业。这一数据仅比十年前略低。
In general, however, the Asian economies are not only in much better shape than a decade ago, but also when compared with other emerging economies in eastern Europe or Latin America.
而就整体来说，亚洲经济体的表现不仅好于10年前，而且还胜过同时期的东欧、拉美等其他新兴经济体。
A decade ago, Chinese Americans were to be found mainly in the big consulting firms, or in management positions at the joint-venture operations that were a foreign company's only way into the market.
10年前，美籍华人主要出现在大型顾问公司，或者在中外合资的公司里担任管理层职位，因为，这是外商打入中国市场的唯一手段。
A decade ago, Chinese Americans were to be found mainly in the big consulting firms, or in management positions at the joint-venture operations that were a foreign company's only way into the market.
10年前，美籍华人主要出现在大型顾问公司，或者在中外合资的公司里担任管理层职位，因为，这是外商打入中国市场的唯一手段。
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