几周前，在一场庆祝妇女在财经界发挥作用的活动中，美国财长蒂莫西·盖特纳(Timothy Geithner)试图用笑话作为开场白。
A few weeks back, at an event to celebrate the role of women in finance, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tried to get things started with a joke.
电影界的高层人物直到不久前还在自吹自擂目前的经济衰退对本行业没有什么影响。
Until recently executives were boasting that the film business was resistant, perhaps even immune, to recession.
卡塔尔数百亿美元的地铁和地上轨道项目近日开工，预计将于2016年前分阶段完工，该工程是卡塔尔希望申办2022年世界杯的重要项目。
Work has begun on Qatar's multibillion-dollar metro and ground rail projects, set to be completed in phases until 2016, and central to the emirate's dreams of hosting the 2022 football World Cup.
KotakuiteEric将要离职投身游戏界，在离职派对上，他的前工作伙伴送了他这个漂亮的NES蛋糕。
Kotakuite Eric was leaving his old job for a shiny new one within the game industry so his ex co-workers had this amazing NES cake made for his going away party.(Link)
自然界将前五次灭绝带给了恐龙和地球上的其它居民，它们以冰河、陨星或火山的形式到来。
The previous five extinctions were visited upon the dinosaurs and other denizens of the earth by the natural world, coming as glaciers, meteorites, or volcanoes.
从50年代到70年代殖民体系瓦解前，中国的第三世界政策以支援民族解放运动为主要内容。
From 1950s to 1970s, the main content of Chinese third world policy was to support the national liberation movements.
大约25亿年前，生物界出现了光合作用——把光照、二氧化碳和水转化成糖的能力。
About 2.5 billion years ago, the newest fad in organisms was photosynthesis — the ability to to turn sunlight, carbon dioxide (CO2) and water into sugar.
大约30年前，阿拉德（Ron Arad）凭借利用废旧汽车座椅改造而成的起居室椅子在设计界一举成名。
Almost 30 years ago, Ron Arad hit it big in the design world with a living-room chair made from the seat of a junked car.
违例后的掷球入界，在球离手前，掷球入界队员延边线向不同的两个方向移动是违犯规则的？
After a violation, is it illegal for the thrower-in to move in both directions along the boundary line before releasing the ball?
VIP艺术博览会由James和JaneCohan共同建立，三年前艺术界受到经济衰退波及的时候，这两个来自纽约的交易商与两个互联网企业家结盟组队。
VIP was created by James and Jane Cohan, a couple of New York art dealers who teamed up with two Internet entrepreneurs three years ago when the art world was about to be hit by recession.
目的探讨后囊环形撕囊制作起始瓣对玻璃体前界膜完整性的影响。
Objective To evaluate the effect of posterior continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis (PCCC) with initial tearing method on the integrity of anterior hyaloid membrane.
46岁的吴宗宪27年前踏入台湾娱乐界，隐退之后，他将致力于LED灯具生意，期许为每个人提供这种节能产品。
46-year-old Wu has been in Taiwan's entertainment circles for 27 years. After retiring, he plans to continue his business selling LED lights, hoping to give everyone the resources to save energy.
早在六年前，杜嘉班纳就决定收购D&G ，以巩固其时尚界的地位。
Messrs. Dolce and Gabbana decided to buy the D&G license back six years ago to improve its positioning.
若是放在十年前，英美强强组合一定是2018和2022世界杯的不二选择。
A decade ago, a U.K.-U.S., one-two combination might have seemed an obvious choice for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
瓦霍维娅公司前董事长托马斯-R-威廉斯发现，许多在银行界工作的年轻人不知道什么时候该停止研究方案，什么时候该着手结束工作。
Thomas R. Williams, former chairman of Wachovia Corporation, discovered that many young people in banking don't know when to stop researching a project and start wrapping it up.
在5月18日，吉尼斯认定瓦伦汀比前一位世界年龄纪录保持者--来自佐治亚州梦露的贝斯 ·库伯多活48天。
On May 18, Guinness determined that Valentim was 48 days older than the person previously considered the world's oldest human, Besse Cooper from Monroe, Georgia.
金融界的冬天还将持续，最明显的例证就是股票回购大幅减少。在信贷危机发生的五年前，每股收益的增长中约有三分之一是得益于股票回购。
The strongest evidence of a continued chill is the sharp fall in share buybacks, which accounted for around one-third of growth in earnings per share in the five years before the credit crunch.
音乐界则认同允许人们将CD上的内容复制到电脑或其他设备上。实际上从十年前开始人们便已经都这样做了。
The music industry agrees that people should be allowed to copy CDs to computers and other devices-as has been common practice for a decade.
随着美国足球联赛的收官（洛杉矶银河队未能进入季后赛），作为前英格兰国家队中场大将，贝克汉姆仍想打比赛，因为他不想错过为国参加2010年世界杯决赛圈。
With the US football season over (and Los Angeles Galaxy did not make the playoffs), the English midfielder wants to play because he has no intention of missing out on the 2010 World Cup finals.
一年多前，我应邀为一群新任公司董事讲讲有关新闻界的工作方式。
A little over a year ago, I was invited to talk to a group of newly appointed company directors about the workings of the press.
岩石的应力-应变全过程曲线以峰值应力为界，通常分为破坏前区和破坏后区两个部分。
The complete stress-strain curve of rock could be divided into pre-failure and post-failure regions according to the peak stress.
区内下古生界烃源岩经历了两次成油过程，第一次发生在加里东运动前的盆地沉降阶段，第二次发生在加里东运动后晚古生代陆表海沉积阶段。
The first was in the basin subsidence stage that was prior to the Caledonian movement. The second took place in the marginal sea deposition stage after the Caledonian movement.
银联七年前在中国成立，是大陆唯一的银行界网络系统。
UnionPay was established in China seven years ago and serves as the mainland's only inter-bank network.
他两周前才拿到拉威尔的乐谱，但他在戏剧界是个有名的学得很快的人。
Until a fortnight ago, he had never had Ravel's score in his hands, but he is what is known in the theater as a quick study.
迭戈马拉多纳是阿根廷的足球天才同时也是足球界备受争议的符号。这位前阿根廷球星现在正执教阿根廷国家队征战2010南非世界杯。
Diego Maradona is the talented but often controversial soccer icon from Argentina. The former star player is the current head coach for the Argentines at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
11年前，在英格兰足球界毫无名气的温格，当他从日本来到北伦敦的时候，还有很多东西需要证明。
A virtual unknown in English football, Wenger had much to prove when he moved from Japan to North London 11 years ago.
北部斜坡带中段的深挖细找，前中生界基岩、北部斜坡带东、西两侧以及南部陡坡带是今后油气勘探的方向。
For further exploration, the focus will be the middle section of the Northern Slope zone, pre-Mesozoic basement, east and west sides of the Northern Slope zone and the southern steep slope zone.
我记得在我的第一次世界杯亮相前，那时距98世界杯还有一个月，我走在街上，每个人都会祝福道“世界杯好运”。
I remember before my first World Cup, even a month before France '98, walking down the street and everybody was saying "good luck at the World Cup'."
我记得在我的第一次世界杯亮相前，那时距98世界杯还有一个月，我走在街上，每个人都会祝福道“世界杯好运”。
I remember before my first World Cup, even a month before France '98, walking down the street and everybody was saying "good luck at the World Cup'."
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