关于那名隐居者邻居们所知道的就是他已经在那栋楼里住了大约二十年了。

All that neighbours knew about the reclusive man was that he had lived in the building for about 20 years.

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因此，在过去的二十年里，修建新的水利基础设施的压力已经减少了。

As a result, the pressure to build new water infrastructures has diminished over the past two decades.

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过去二十年的电子和数字革命可以说为阅读和写作指明了前进的道路。

The electronic and digital revolution of the last two decades has arguably shown the way forward for reading and for writing.

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Harvard has residential colleges of the kind and Princeton only had it in the last twenty years.

哈佛大学有住宿学院,普林斯顿是在最近二十年来才建立住宿制的。

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She's thinking about putting it on her book club, and--if any of you know anything getting on Oprah's Book Club makes your sales for the next 20 years.

她在考虑把你的书放到她的书友会里，如果你们中有人知道一些关于现代文学的事情的话,进入奥普拉书友会的书在,以后的二十年都会有好销路的。

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He's born, in fact, twenty years before the American Civil War.

他是在美国内战结束后的二十年出生的。

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