This was how things worked not very long ago.
就在不久前发生了这样的事。
Not very long ago, it was also unthinkable that a virus would shut down nations and that safety nets would be proven so disastrously lacking in flexibility.
不久以前，人们还无法想象一种病毒能使众多国家封闭，而安全网被证明是如此灾难性地缺乏灵活性。
Some have asked if I am a star person, yes, but of very very long ago.
有人问我是否是星际人类，是的，但那是很久很久以前了。
That may not seem like very long ago, but in Internet time it's an eon.
这看起来不是很久前的事，但在网际网路时代，它的一个永世。
Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem days of very long ago?
你坐在你母亲膝盖上的日子是否已是很久很久以前的事了？
The man in this picture is holding a mastodon tooth that was found not very long ago.
照片中的人拿著一颗不久前出土的乳齿象牙齿。
There was a time not so very long ago that I didn’t pay much attention to where my money went.
不久以前的某个时候，我并没怎么注意钱花到哪儿去了。
Not very long ago a man named Chris Henshilwood stumbled upon one possible answer to this question.
不久前，一个名为克里斯-罕什伍德的男子偶然地遇到这个问题的一个可能的答案。
I must admit that not very long ago I would have scoffed at even the idea of having children of my own.
我必须承认，不久之前，我还对拥有我自己的孩子这个观点嗤之以鼻。
There was a time, very long ago, when such tenants might in anger " bite their thumbs " at the landlord.
有过一个时期，这些房客可能会在盛怒之下对房东“咬拇指”。
But still Mittavinda had not regained the peace of mind thrown away by the village monk, so very long ago.
但是弥达维德的内心仍然没有回复到很久以前做乡村和尚时的宁静。
If the men of England feel that England is no longer a man's country-for apparently it was so not very long ago-then it isn't.
——如果英国的男人自己觉得英国已经不再是男人的国家了——不久之前英国显然就不是了——那它就确实不是了。
There was another across the River Tigris very long ago, and large number of irrigation canals were made in Iraq to irrigate the land.
很久以前，底格里斯河上就建造了一个大水坝，伊拉克还建筑了很多水渠灌溉田地。
It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of the parish of die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire, -die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread!
时间不短了，我老在这个‘不挨冻你就得挨饿不挨饿你就得挨冻’的教区里当一个教民！
Not so very long ago I was outside in the sunshine, inhaling the fragrance of rosemary and lavender, and picking a nosegay of penstemon and anemone.
没多久以前，我还在外面阳光下呼吸着迷迭香和薰衣草的芬芳，采摘起一束钓钟柳和银莲花。
You know, dears, in the old countries there are many fine stories about things which happened so very long ago that nobody knows exactly how much of them is true.
朋友们，你们都知道，在那些古老的王国里总流传着很多传奇故事。 这些故事流传了很久很久以至于没有人知道这些故事当中哪些真的发生过。
It seems to me that many actions of my life were beautiful, very long ago, when I was young in an evanished world of friendly girls, who were all more lovely than any girl is nowadays.
我觉得很久以前我生活行为中也充溢着美，那时我尚年轻，置身于一群远比当今姑娘更为友善可爱的姑娘之中，置身于一个如今已消失的世界。
They have very high respect for a criminal Jew, who led some kind of guerilla war and was executed long ago, somewhere in Syria.
他们非常尊敬一名犹太罪犯，他指挥了某种游击战，很久以前被处死了，就在叙利亚某处。
Turtles went back to the sea a very long time ago and, like all vertebrate returnees to the water, they breathe air.
海龟很久以前就回到了海里，和所有返回水中的脊椎动物一样，它们呼吸着空气。
Computers were invented not long ago, but they are very useful for us.
电脑发明的历史虽然不长，但它们对我们却很有用。
Long long ago, a man had a cat which he loved very, very much.
很久很久以前，有个人养了一只猫，他非常非常爱它。
Though I transferred to this school not long ago, I have fitted into the class because my classmates were very nice.
尽管我不久前才转学到这所学校，但是我现在已经融入班级了，因为我的同学们都非常好。
A very long time ago when I was a horse in a previous experience, I remember I was not very well treated; and I hated the experience of being a horse.
很长一段时间前，当我前世是一匹马的时候，我记得我没有得到很好的对待；我讨厌作马的感觉。
It's a very long time ago now, back in the decade before last, in the century before this one, but save for the friends who did a hog roast round a camp fire, I can't recall better food at a wedding.
这是很久以前的事了，差不多是二十年前的上个世纪，除了有一次是大家聚在篝火旁边烤猪，我再也想不出来比那更棒的婚宴了。
A guy, a friend of mine in Australia told me last time, long time ago. He told me about a station that played very coony music.
我的一个在澳大利亚的朋友上一次告诉我，也是很长时间以前了，他提到有一家电台，播放些狡猾的音乐。
A long time ago, I was asked to switch assignments on very short notice, from a fun project to a much less fun project.
很久以前，一个很短的通知叫我换个任务，从一个有趣的项目换到一个不怎么有趣的项目。
A long time ago and far away there lived a King and a Queen.they were very happy, for their first child, a girl, had been born.
很久很久以前，在一个遥远的地方，住着一位国王和一位王后，他们因为第一个孩子，一个女儿的诞生非常开心。
A long time ago and far away there lived a King and a Queen.they were very happy, for their first child, a girl, had been born.
很久很久以前，在一个遥远的地方，住着一位国王和一位王后，他们因为第一个孩子，一个女儿的诞生非常开心。
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