All true, but let's think different, to borrow the Apple marketing slogan of years back.
这些都是事实,但借用苹果公司多年前的营销口号——让我们换个角度思考。
The shower that we put in a few years back has broken and we cannot afford to replace it.
我们几年前安装的淋浴器坏了,但没钱换新的。
For example, a few years back in Pakistan, they found the skull of a wolf-like creature.
例如,几年前在巴基斯坦,他们发现了一个类似狼的生物的头骨。
那是几年以前的事。
Just a few years back it was a strictly continental affair with France, Belgium and Holland, Spain and Italy taking part.
就在几年前,这还只是一场大陆赛事,法国、比利时、荷兰、西班牙和意大利都参与其中。
That's something no one expected a few years back.
这是几年前很少有人想到的。
Remember that number puzzle craze a couple of years back?
还记得风靡一时的数字拼图游戏吗?
Yet just a few years back, Howard Smith felt like a rich man.
但就在几年前,郝伍德·史密斯还感觉自己是个富人。
I suddenly remembered a similar experience from several years back.
我突然记起几年前的相似经历。
A few years back, SI went looking forstatistical proof or disproof of the jinx.
早在几年之前,SI便开始为《体育画报》的厄运寻找统计证据或者反证。
He said that several years back his daughter had been diagnosed with leukemia.
他说,几年前,他的女儿被诊断出患有白血病。
A few years back I worked as a project manager for a large public relations agency.
还记得几年前,当时我的工作是大型公共关系公司的项目经理。
Several years back there was a public service announcement that ran on television.
几年前,在电视上有个公益广告。
So, I started this exploration about eight years back, and it literally started with a mouse on my desk.
我的探索从八年前开始,从我桌上的鼠标开始。
Several forces are motivating China's foreign partners to strike global deals that would have been unthinkable a few years back.
推动中国的外资合作伙伴达成全球交易背后有多重动力,这在几年前是不可想象的。
When I last bought a suit on Savile Row in London some years back, it cost me about $1,200, but one could have spent a lot more.
我的上一套西装是几年前在伦敦萨维尔街买的,当时花了我大约1200美元,但一套西装的价格可以比这贵得多。
My favorite was trying to explain my job to my wife's late grandfather some years back, a wonderful gentleman at an advanced age.
我最好笑的经历是多年前跟我妻子的祖父解释我的工作。老爷子年岁大了,人相当的有意思。
The Chicago exchanges easily saw off Eurex, a German-Swiss derivatives-exchange company, when it took them on a few years back.
当芝加哥的交易所在几年前与一个由德国和瑞士合办的衍生品交易公司—欧洲期货与期权交易所(Eurex)竞争之时,它们轻松地将其击退。
Three years back, Microsoft introduced Surface, a technology that lets people use their fingers and objects to interact with table-sized displays.
三年前,微软公司引进了Surface,它能让人用手指和物体与桌面大小的显示器交互。
A few years back, when I was volunteering at a local hospital's front desk, a delivery Courier came in and asked where the lab was, since he had a rush delivery.
几年前,当我在本地一家医院前台志愿服务的时候,进来一位快递员,问实验室在哪儿,因为他有一个急件要递送。
Some years back I flagged a taxi in midtown Manhattan, and asked the driver if he was willing to take me to a city in northern New Jersey, where I had a business meeting.
几年前我曾在曼哈顿中城叫过一辆出租车,问司机是否愿意载我去新泽西北部的一座城市,我要去那儿参加一个商务会议。
Millions of years back, they apparently grabbed the genes for making carotenoids directly from a carotenoid-producing fungus. And then incorporated those genes into the aphid genome.
几百万年前,蚜虫似乎是直接从产生类胡萝卜素的菌类身上拿走了产生类胡萝卜素的基因,再把这种基因合并到自己的基因组中。
A few years back CEO Tony Petrucciani and his team at Single Source Systems, a software firm in Fishers, Ind., set 15 annual goals, such as automating some of its software functions.
几年前,位于美国印第安纳州费希尔斯的软件公司SingleSourceSystems的首席执行官托尼•派卓契亚尼及其团队每年都设定15个目标,诸如实现部分软件功能的自动化。
A few years back the novel was seriously considered by a Penguin Books editor, who wanted me to add another character; then she went on maternity leave, and that was the end of that.
几年前企鹅出版集团的一位编辑曾认真考虑过这部小说,希望我能增加一个人物,后来她休产假,这事便搁下了。
A few years back the novel was seriously considered by a Penguin Books editor, who wanted me to add another character; then she went on maternity leave, and that was the end of that.
几年前企鹅出版集团的一位编辑曾认真考虑过这部小说,希望我能增加一个人物,后来她休产假,这事便搁下了。
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