As recently as five years ago, US migration was twice the rate of European Union states.
就在5年前，美国的移民率还是欧盟国家的两倍。
The union between the two countries was effected three years ago.
两国合并是三年前实现的。
After two-and-a-half years of war, he had good news to report. Union armies had gained two important victories at about the same time.
美国内战经过两年半后，他已经有一些好消息可以向国会报告了，北方军几乎在同一时间取得了两场重要的胜利。
It was encouraging when he vowed during his 2009 State of the Union Address to double exports within five years.
当他在2009年的国家联邦演说中郑重宣告五年内实现双倍出口时是振奋人心的。
The influence of the Euro will depend in part upon the competitiveness of European Union countries in future years, and the depth and liquidity of its financial markets.
欧元产生的影响部分取决于欧盟各国在未来几年内的竞争力及其金融市场的深度与流动性。
But the big difference is that TFP in the Soviet Union actually fell by an annual average of 1% over 30 years to 1988.
但是（苏联和中国的）不同在于苏联的TFP在1988年前的30年里实际上下降到了年均1%左右。
Albania formally applied to join the European Union too, though it may take years to get in.
阿尔巴尼亚也正式申请加入欧盟，虽然加入将花费几年时间。
As expected, the European Union extended the copyright on musical recordings from 50 to 70 years.
如人们所希望的，欧盟决定对音乐作品版权保护期由目前的50年延长至70年。
But over the past two years these services have become more affordable worldwide, according to the ITU (International Telecommunication Union).
不过据国际电信联盟(itu)统计，在过去两年中，通信服务在全球范围愈发便宜了。
The treaty does little to make the European Union any simpler or more transparent, two supposed goals when the negotiations began eight long years ago.
该条约几乎没能简化欧盟决策过程，也没能增加欧盟透明度。而达成这两个目标正是八年前开始谈判的初衷。
The European Union banned routine use of antibiotics in animal feed years ago because of evidence about its drug-resistance consequences for humans.
因为有证据表明细菌的抗药性可能传递到人类，欧盟约于数年前已经停止在动物饲养中抗诉素的常规使用。
Fortunately, a few years later both America and the Soviet Union became interested in using solar power in space, where its advantages became apparent very quickly.
值得庆幸是，几年后，因为太阳能动力在太空的优势十分明显，美国和苏联同时对应用它的兴趣大增。
The idea originally came from the Soviet Union where distance learning had run for many years on a large scale.
这个观念起源于苏联，在那里，大规模的远程教育已经开展了好多年。
Turkey was a NATO ally and was hoping to be admitted to the European Union, a development I had been strongly supporting for years.
土耳其是北约成员，并希望得到批准，加入欧盟，我多年来对此事一直非常支持。
They are repeating things that the US and Soviet Union did 40 years ago.
相同的尝试早在40年前的美国和前苏联实现。
In this aspect, the Russia Federation and the European Union have been making unremitting efforts and useful attempts over many years.
在此方面，俄罗斯、欧盟等各方多年来做出了不懈努力和有益尝试。
The Soviet Union had three years left when rumbles hinting at its imminent collapse began to reverberate in the Caucasus.
苏联解体三年前，高加索地区可谓山雨欲来风满楼。
While David Beckham and his ever-slender wife Victoria also show no sign of losing the shine from their union 11 years after the event.
而大卫•贝克汉姆与他始终苗条的妻子维多利亚结婚11年依然恩爱如初。
On January 24, I gave the State of the Union address to the first Republican Congress in forty years.
1月24日，我向共和党占多数的国会发表国情咨文，这是40年来第一次。
In April, almost 20 years after the Soviet Union disintegrated, Russia agreed to demarcate its land (though not its sea) border with Ukraine.
四月，苏联解体近二十年之后，俄罗斯同意与乌克兰重新划定陆地边界(虽然不是海洋边界)。
Even the former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov, who is a hero throughout the former Soviet Union for his years as champion, joined the fight.
即使是蝉联多年冠军而红遍整个前苏联的英雄——国际象棋前世界冠军卡波夫(AnatolyKarpov)也加入到这场战役中。
For much of the past 15 years, with funding from the European Union, the Italian volcanologist has struggled to focus the scientific community's attention on Nyiragongo.
过去十五年大部分时间里，在欧盟的资助下，这位意大利火山学家一直力争让科学界的注意力集中到尼拉贡戈火山。
Two years later, the Soviet Union, too, ceased to exist.
两年后，苏联也不复存在。
Italian seismologist Dario Tedesco has spent the last 15 years studying Nyiragongo, with funding from the European Union.
获得欧盟资助的意大利地震学家达利奥·特德斯库在过去15年中一直对于尼拉贡戈火山进行研究。
"We are currently witnessing the greatest extinction crisis since dinosaurs disappeared from our planet 65 million years ago," according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
“我们正在目击自六千五百万年前恐龙消失以来，这颗行星上最大规模的物种灭绝危机”，国际自然保护联盟声称。
Twenty years ago, when the Soviet Union collapsed, so did beef production in Russia. Breeding and management programs for beef cattle fell apart.
苏联20年前解体时，俄罗斯的牛肉生产也随之瓦解，菜牛(又译肉用牛、食用牛)的饲养和管理项目分崩离析。
Only with the rise of the Space Shuttle programme in the early 1980s, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union a few years later, did America retake the crown.
直到20世纪80年代初航天飞机计划的兴起以及没几年后苏联的解体，美国才重获该领域的主导地位。
So I offer you my thanks, I offer you my support, and I look forward to working with you and answering to you and the American people as we seek a more perfect union in the months and years ahead.
因此，我向你们表示我的感谢，表示我的支持，在今后的岁月里，既然我们都在追求更加完美的和谐，我期待着与你们一道工作，并对你们和美国人民负责。
So I offer you my thanks, I offer you my support, and I look forward to working with you and answering to you and the American people as we seek a more perfect union in the months and years ahead.
因此，我向你们表示我的感谢，表示我的支持，在今后的岁月里，既然我们都在追求更加完美的和谐，我期待着与你们一道工作，并对你们和美国人民负责。
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