They lived on the earth tens of millions of years ago long before humans.

千百万年前他们就居住在地球上，比人类的出现要早得多。

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The Children's Online Privacy Protection act, or Coppa, was enacted over a decade ago, long before the advent of social media and smartphones.

《儿童上网隐私保护法》或称Coppa，是在十几年前制定的，远远早于社会媒体和智能电话的出现。

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This all supposedly happened about 4.4 billion years ago, long before there was any life on Earth to gaze up and see the strange sight of dual moons.

双月撞击被假定发生于距今44亿年前，距地球上出现生命还有很久，没有任何生物会仰头凝视双月辉空的奇异画面。

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Only the sound of insects filled the air as I walked through the empty town that summer day so long ago.

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Well, you know, it goes back to the beginning of the formation of the personal computer industry, which--that sounds like a long time ago.

嗯，你知道，这要追溯到,个人电脑产业的形成初期，听起来相当久远了。

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and I think that because... from a long time ago there were, it was just a very diverse city.

而且很久前，这里就是个多元性的城市。

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So, Silicon Valley dwellers, with the cheap land and wide-open spaces of a generation ago long gone you tell us: why stick around?

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To take a more recent example, Arundhati Roy, India's Booker-prize novelist, not long ago wrote a long and impassioned article in one of India's weekly magazines portraying capitalists, especially foreign ones, as plunderers.

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Actually, the dramatic trend to shorter holding periods began 50 years ago, long before flash-trading entered the vocabulary.

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