The scene threw his mind back to a snow night twenty years before.

眼前的景物使他的思想回到二十年前一个下雪的夜晚。

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In the small box was the ring that he had given her twenty years before.

那个小盒里面是那枚他二十年前送给她的戒指。

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In others, an indigenous child can expect to die twenty years before his or her non-indigenous compatriots.

在其他国家，土著儿童的预期寿命比其非土著同胞短20年。

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Homestake operated as a gold mine for one hundred twenty-five years before closing about nine years ago.

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He's born, in fact, twenty years before the American Civil War.

他是在美国内战结束后的二十年出生的。

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Now it's still going to be another twenty-five years before Milton writes the great epic, but Milton will no longer express the same degree of anxiety about under-preparation to write the great epic.

距他成为真正的史诗诗人,还有25年，但是弥尔顿不会再轻易表现出,关于创作史诗毫无准备的同等的焦虑了。

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My mother had always been ahead of fashion trends, but in this instance she'd recognized the talent of Patricia Field twenty years before the rest of the world.

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Mickey Rourke, whose career was long ago laid to rest, rises again to play Randy (the Ram) Robinson, a wrestler whose own career has tumbled from a high of twenty years before.

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Then one day I received his telegram, which was like an opera libretto, just as theatrical, as dangerously childish and false, as everything he had said and written to others twenty years before .

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