A few years ago divers, working in a wreck under the Red Sea, several times sighted a wrasse 20 feet long.

几年前，在红海底一只沉船里工作的潜水员几次看到一条20英尺长的濑鱼。

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"Times are bad for everyone here," he said. "Not long ago, I saw my uncle in the woods."

“对于每一个人来说，这里的时光十分艰难”他说“不久之前我在树林里见到了我的叔叔。”

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A magician on a cruise liner had a parrot, who'd seen all the magician's tricks a million times, long ago having figured out how the magician made everything in the act disappear.

一艘游船上的魔术师有只鹦鹉，这个魔术师的所有戏法它都看过上百万次，早就弄清楚了魔术师怎么在表演中让所有东西消失不见。

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In more recent times, I have seen... it's a long time ago, but I've seen concerts there.

最近，我看了……那是挺久前的事情了，我在那儿看了演唱会。

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So wrote a hysterical man named Charles Ferguson in a New York Times editorial not long ago.

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Not too long ago, the lead op-ed in the New York Times was titled Is Private School Not Expensive Enough ?

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Famed commodities investment guru Jim Rogers told The Economic Times in India on Monday that the US should have been downgraded a long time ago.

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