He'd spent four and a half years in windowless cells, much of the time in chains.
他在无窗的牢房里呆了4年半，大部分时间是手铐脚镣。
After ten years travelling the world, she felt it was time to put down roots somewhere.
游历世界十年之后，她觉得该是找个地方定居的时候了。
By the time we had made landfall the boat looked ten years older!
等到我们登陆时，这艘船看似已老了10年！
The lease runs for 21 years, and they are committed to seeing out that time.
租约为期21年，他们将信守合同直到期满。
These bonuses will be paid when your savings plan matures in ten years' time.
当你的储蓄计划在10年后到期时，这些红利将会被支付。
The government uncoupled the peso from the dollar yesterday for the first time in 11 years.
昨天政府十一年来第一次使比索脱离美元。
That's the first time I lost my cool in 20 years in this job. This whole thing's getting to me.
那是我干这份工作20年来头一次失去冷静。这整件事让我痛苦不堪。
This critic generated I think some undue rivalry between ballet and modern dance, and it would take a long time, many years in fact, for the rivalry to calm down.
我认为这个评论家造成了在芭蕾和现代舞之间的一些过度竞争，而且需要很长时间（实际上是很多年），才能平息这种竞争。
The shape of this orbit isn't consistent; it varies over time, over a period of about a thousand years.
轨道的形状并不是始终如一的；它会随时间变化，变化周期为一百年左右。
They range from a few days for small lakes up to several hundred years for large ones; Lake Tahoe, in California, has a residence time of 700 years.
它们从小湖的几天到大湖的几百年不等；加州的太浩湖有700年的滞留时间。
It is difficult to understand how reduced predation would lead to sudden increases in Acanthaster numbers in several places at the same time in specific years.
很难理解捕食减少是如何导致在特定年份的同一时间内，几个地方的棘冠海星数量突然增加。
Consider humans as part of these ecosystems, you've probably heard about water shortages or restrictions on how much water you can use, especially in the summer time, in recent years.
考虑到人类是这些生态系统的一部分，你可能听说过，水资源短缺可能会限制你可以使用多少水，特别是近些年夏天的时候，
You could, alternatively, hang onto it in the hope that it will be worth millions in 10 years time.
或者，你也可以把它留着，指望它10年后值好几百万。
It was the first time in years that a Japanese manufacturer had not topped the list for imported vehicles.
这是多年来日本厂商第一次未能位居进口汽车名单榜首。
Twenty-five years ago they filled a time capsule and buried it.
25年前，他们装满一个时光宝盒并把它埋了起来。
It took two years for me to get better, during which time he spoon-fed me and did absolutely everything around the house.
我花了两年时间才好起来，在此其间他用勺子喂我进食，并承担全部的家务。
It's the first time a Westerner has been convicted for a drug-related offence in recent years in China.
这是近年来第一次有西方人在中国被判犯有与毒品有关的罪行。
Five years older than the majority of officers of his same rank, he was determined to make up for lost time.
他比同级别的大多数官员大5岁，他决心弥补自己失去的时光。
The competition only happens every four years, and the last time the team went, they won the third place in the nation.
这个比赛每四年举行一次。上次这个队去参赛的时候，他们获得了全国第三名。
For example, the Long Now Foundation has as its flagship project a mechanical clock that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years hence.
例如，LongNow基金会有一个作为旗舰项目的机械钟，它的设计目的是几千年后仍在计时。
Most people spend much more time interacting with digital media than they did ten years ago.
大多数人花在与数字媒体互动上的时间要比十年前多得多。
Unless the situation in the shops improves, in ten years' time we may all have to subject ourselves to a body-search every time we go into a store to buy a tin of beans!
除非商店里的情况有所改善，否则在十年的时间里，我们每次进商店买一罐豆子都可能不得不接受身体检查！
On Christmas Eve in 1994, humans entered a cave in the mountains of southeastern France for what was probably the first time in 20,000 years.
1994年圣诞前夜，人类进入了法国东南部山区的一个洞穴，这可能是2万年来的第一次。
I come to this, from hearing my master say, some time during 1835, I was about seventeen years old.
我意识到这个，是听我的主人说的，大概在1835年的时候，那时我大约十七岁。
Leah reflects on a time she listened to the whispers: "About the time my daughter was five years old, I started having a sense that 'this isn't right'."
莉娅回想起，有一次她听到这些窃窃私语：“大约在我女儿五岁的时候，我开始感觉‘这样不对’。”
Leah reflects on a time she listened to the whispers: "About the time my daughter was five years old, I started having a sense that 'this isn't right.'"
利亚回想起，有一次，她听到这些窃窃私语：“大约在我女儿五岁的时候，我开始有一种‘这样不对’的感觉。”
For the first time in years, my brother experienced quiet when I got home.
这么多年来第一次，我哥哥在我回到家时能落得清静。
Will schools be different in twenty years' time?
20年后学校会有所不同吗？
If successful, reaching the outer side of space could be as easy as flying abroad in a few years' time.
如果成功的话，在几年内，到达外太空就像飞到国外一样容易了。
I was only nine years old at that time.
我那时候只有九岁。
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