He had buried his wife some two years before he retired.
他大约在退休前两年丧妻。
It was many years before the full story was made public.
许多年之后，事情的全貌才公之于众。
I was on dialysis for seven years before my first transplant.
在第一次肾移植手术前，我已做了七年的透析。
He still remembered her as the lively teenager he'd known years before.
他记忆中的她依然是他多年以前认识的那个活泼的少女。
Two years before graduating from secondary school, I took a sewing and design course thinking that I would move on to a fashion design course.
在中学毕业前两年，我上了一个缝纫和设计的课，以为自己会继续学习时装设计课程。
British researchers claim that a routine eye test carried out by your optician could detect Alzheimer's up to 20 years before any symptoms show.
英国研究人员声称，验光师做的常规眼部检查能提前20年，在任何症状出现前检测出老年痴呆症。
Musicologists therefore hypothesize that the diatonic musical scale was developed and used thousands of years before it was adopted by Western musicians.
音乐学家因此推测，在被西方音乐家采用之前，全音阶已经发展和使用了数千年。
He went to work for a battery research company and waited years before the founder promoted him to CEO.
他去了一家电池研究公司工作，历经数年，直到创始人将他提拔为首席执行官。
Here water may be stored in ice form for hundreds or even hundreds of thousands of years before being released again into the liquid water system as meltwater.
在这里，水可能以冰的形式储存数百年甚至数十万年，然后再以融水的形式释放到液态水系统中。
When they had married, six years before, the difference in their ages had seemed unimportant.
他们6年前结婚时，年龄上的差别似乎并不重要。
It was 80 years before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic that Zheng He had sailed to East Africa.
在克里斯托弗·哥伦布横渡大西洋的八十年前，郑和已经航行到了东非。
Her poems on various subjects, religious and moral, were printed in Boston in 1773, three years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
1773年，在《独立宣言》签署的三年前，她关于宗教和道德等各种主题的诗歌在波士顿出版。
He taught for several years before becoming a writer.
他教了几年书之后成为作家。
He had been cheating the taxman but it was years before he was found out.
他过去一直在欺骗税务部门，只是多年以后才被查出来。
It may be many years before the situation improves.
这种状况或许要过很多年才能得到改善。
Ants were farmers fifty million years before humans were.
蚂蚁比人类早五千万年成为农民。
Carter sifted through rubble in the Valley of the Kings for seven years before he located the tomb in 1922.
卡特在帝王谷的废墟中仔细搜寻了7年，直到1922年才找到这座陵墓。
It took nearly a thousand years before they perfected the process to produce high-quality ceramics known as porcelain.
他们花了近一千年的时间才完善了生产高质量陶瓷的工艺，这种陶瓷被称为瓷器。
I learned that Freddy did several jobs after his graduation from high school and remained the same caring person I met forty years before.
我了解到弗雷迪高中毕业后做过好几份工作，他跟四十年前我见到的那样，仍是个热心肠的人。
The Frenchman Denis Papin had the idea for a steam engine almost a hundred years before James Watt was born, but Denis never had enough money to build one.
法国人丹尼斯·帕潘在詹姆斯·瓦特出生前近百年就有了制造蒸汽机的想法，但是他从来没有足够的资金去建造这样一台机器。
It will be years before the project is completed.
这项工程要再过几年才能竣工。
He laughed the same hearty laugh of almost fifteen years before.
他会心的笑几乎和十五年前的笑一模一样。
The scene threw his mind back to a snow night twenty years before.
眼前的景物使他的思想回到二十年前一个下雪的夜晚。
Apple has access to new component technology months or years before its rivals.
苹果获得这些新部件技术要比竞争对手早几个月甚至几年。
It would be nearly thirty years before I got to see the splendor of the city.
等我看到这座城市的辉煌时已是近30年后的事了。
Mr Stevens was a senator for 40 years before he was narrowly defeated in 2008.
Stevens先生当了40年的参议员，在2008年以微弱劣势惜败。
This was written, of course, a mere five years before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
当然，这是在柏林墙倒塌前仅仅五年的时候写的。
This was written, of course, a mere five years before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
当然，这是在柏林墙倒塌前仅仅五年的时候写的。
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