The torpor dates back years.

这种决策上的迟缓可以追溯到多年前。

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We have good statistics on the Numbers of earthquakes going back years, decades and centuries. See a nice summary here.

我们对过去几十个世纪的地震情况做了详细的统计。

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It may come as a surprise to you that while SOAP's window dressing is new, what's present under the hood dates back years, even decades.

您可能会感到惊奇，虽然SOAP的橱窗装扮成新的，但其下面所呈现的要回溯至数年前，甚至是数十年前。

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He says looking back thousands of years can help researchers look forward by understanding how a disease changed over time.

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In their silence they were themselves. "They"ve only recently learned to sell these crystals since the highway was built about ten years back.

只有在平静中，她们才显露出自己的真实面目,“她们是在最近才学会卖这些水晶石的，大概是10年前。

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In fact, there was a robbery, I think here in Beverly Hills, a couple years back at Tiffany.

实际上，这里发生过抢劫，就在比佛利山庄这儿，几年前在第芙尼珠宝店。

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Tensions between Cardiff and Westminster, whose origins date back years, are coming to a head.

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The genesis for the film, though, goes back years earlier, according Mr. Bonner's fellow co-director Anja Daelemans, a Belgian moviemaker.

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Airbus's wary investors may recall what happened to Boeing itself when it last ramped-up production and suffered disastrous glitches that set it back years.

ECONOMIST: Airbus��s jumbo-sized problem threatens the firm��s future