Four years ago today.

四年前的今天。

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Am I much better off because I live today rather than four thousand years ago in Ancient Egypt?

难道我的境况优越是因为我宁愿生活在今天而不是四千年前的古埃及吗？

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Even Uganda, an African HIV reduction success story, is today curing fewer TB patients than it did four years ago.

即使在作为非洲减少HIV成功榜样的乌干达，现在与四年以前相比治愈的结核病人较少。

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Walking through these historic areas, visitors today might find it hard to believe that a deadly storm swept through the city over four years ago.

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His works are as fresh today as they were four hundred years ago.

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Fifty-four years ago today, Ernest Hemingway wrote his editor at Scribner's that The Old Man and the Sea was the best he could write ever.

NPR: The Enduring Depths of 'Old Man and the Sea'

Fifty-four years ago today, on March 4, 1952, Mr. Hemingway wrote his publisher that he had just finished a short novel that was, quote, The best I can write ever for all of my life.

NPR: The Enduring Depths of 'Old Man and the Sea'

That was almost four years ago, and today, as I sit here (in my underwear) at my desk in my bedroom, I am officially a full-time freelance writer.

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