My dual liberal arts degrees, which for four years had seemingly promised everything and nothing, were delivering only the latter.

我拥有的双重文科学位，在四年的学习中好像能带给我一切又好像一切都没有，而到最后事实只证明了后者。

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In fact, for her age, Xue had many difficulties during the four years.

事实上，就薛的年龄而言，她在这四年中遇到了许多困难。

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Rainfall in the Maya homeland is unpredictably variable between years; some recent years have had three or four times more rain than other years.

玛雅故土的降雨量在不同年份是变化莫测的；最近几年的降雨量比其他年份多三到四倍。

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But in two thousand four, after years of studying cancer, Anita Roberts learned that she herself had the disease.

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I have to say that Shelly Kagan is probably the best lecturer I had in my four years at Yale."

我不得不说薛立·卡刚很可能是,我在耶鲁四年所遇到的最好的演讲者“

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I'm sixty-four years old and I haven't had one second of genius in my entire life.

我已经六十四岁了,这辈子都没有哪怕一秒钟灵光乍现的时候

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He said President Obama's prescription over the last four years had been stimulus, so-called "Obamacare" and clean energy.

BBC: Obama and Romney offer double vision

Its previous forecast for the next four years had the PC market growing by 1.9% per year until 2017 to 382 million units.

FORBES: IDC Lowering March Quarter PC Shipment Forecast

Former smokers who had stayed away from tobacco for more than four years had a 54% lower risk of heart and artery disease than smokers.

BBC: Quitting smoking 'cuts heart risk despite weight gain'