He served for 8 years in the Illinois state Senate before voters elected him to the United States Senate in 2004.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Are they beginning to have basic assumptions changed over the last 50 years? I guess, well, 60 years now?

他们承担的基本责任是否正在改变？,经历了过去的50年，哦不，60年直到现在？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Milton, who had died in 1674, had established himself as a great English poet within twenty or so years of his death.

弥尔顿死于1674年，死前花了20多年,奠定了他伟大英国诗人的地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It took a number of years before Congress was able to pass a law demanding a literacy test for immigrants.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

You know Bill, we shaped each other up together and known each other since we are 18, 19 years old.

你知道比尔，我们对彼此产生影响,我们算是一起成长，从18，9岁开始。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Years later,Woody described what singing meant to him: "When you sing a song, it reaches out and enters people's ears.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Does it really matter to you whether your code is going to take 300 years or 900 years to run?

或者900年区别大么？,这个数字的规模才是问题关键所在？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The name is based on a funny joke many years ago on a British television show, "Monty Python's Flying Circus."

VOA: special.2010.08.01

But imagine doing crossword puzzles every day for 10 years, 1,000 years, a million years, a billion years, a trillion years.

但想象往后每天做填字游戏，玩上十年，一千年以至永远。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But ten years later, a similar accusation by another boy led to a criminal trial which began in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

Of course, five years is too short because most people live in a house for more than five years.

当然,五年太短了,因为大多数人会在一所房子里住5年以上

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A farmer in Zambia said he hoped to have enough money in three years to buy a diesel-powered pump.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

But those years, if you recall, were the years of the cultural wars. -That's right.

但您能回想起，那些年，是文化论战的年份，-对的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

By eighteen sixty-three, America's northern states and southern states had been fighting a bitter civil war for two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Hopefully within two years, probably not next year, but within two years, there will be positive psychology class offered, but I certainly cannot guarantee it.

但愿两年内，明年可能性不大，但是两年内，学校会再次开设积极心理学课程，但我无法保证。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The problem reportedly has led to more than eight hundred crashes and nineteen deaths in the past ten years.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

So, I actually paused for a moment to take some photographs after this particular experience because after walking this woman who happened to be, I mean she was at least 70 plus years old I would say, no offense if she's watching this on the Internet now and I got that wrong, but at least 70 years old.

所以，通过这个特殊的经历后,我停下来一会儿，拍了一些照片，因为这种事发生在,这位老太太身上,我的意思是她至少有70多岁了，我想说，如果她在网上看看这个，就不会犯错了,但是我错了，她至少70多岁了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

People moved into the American Southwest more than ten thousand years ago as the last ice age was ending.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Interestingly enough, ten years ago somebody found photos taken by this Parisian of the siege in the Commune in the back of the Hotel de Ville; they were found ten years ago, they had survived.

令人颇感惊奇的是,在十年前,有人发现了由巴黎人所拍的,公社在市政厅后被围的一些相片,它们于十年前被发现,居然得以留存完好

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Many years ago, a young man named Giovanni Guasconti left his home in Naples to study in northern Italy.

VOA: special.2011.01.29

So he took the financial plans of the conservative Government that was then in power, five years ahead, and he said these are my financial plans, I'm going to announce these today as my financial plans five years ahead.

所以他就用了当时执政的,保守党的财政计划,作为未来五年的财政计划公布给民众,他说这些计划就是他的执政计划,我现在就宣布,这是未来五年的财政计划

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The Roman historian Pliny said that Phoenician sailors accidentally discovered how to make glass over three thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

This Cambridge History of Food talks about three separate primary phases in human food evolution: one beginning a million and a half years ago, another about 700,000 years ago, and then the 10,000 year ago one that I talked about just a moment ago.

剑桥饮食史》描述了,人类饮食结构演化过程中的三个不同阶段,其一,始于一百五十万年前,其二,距今约七十万年,其三,距今一万年,我们刚讨论过了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The Justice Department says rates in recent years fell to levels last seen in the middle of the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

The best work on this has been done by Elissa Newport and Sam Supalla who have studied people who have been in the United States for many, many years like 30, 40 years and seeing how well they have come to speak English.

在这方面最佳的研究,是由伊莉萨·纽波特,和萨姆·苏普拉所进行的,他们研究了在美国生活了,三四十年以上的人们,探究了这些人们讲英语的流利程度

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In South Korea, President Obama and President Lee Myung-bak discussed a free trade agreement signed by their governments two years ago.

VOA: special.2009.11.21

The expected life spans increased dramatically in the last couple of hundred years until now, for people that were born when you were born you can expect to live to be 80 years old, a doubling in life span, fairly dramatic.

从几百年前到现在,预期寿命显著增长了,你们同期出生的那批人,能够活到八十岁,预期寿命增长了一倍,令人印象深刻

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

I'm trying to travel as much as possible and discover the city I've been living in for three years."

VOA: special.2010.06.18

So here I am, 100 years, 1,000 years, around 500,000 years, whatever it may be.

经过一百年，一千年，经过50万年后。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Adjustable rate mortgages have a long term -they might last for thirty years -but the interest rate is not fixed for the whole thirty years.

可调利率抵押贷款的期限很长,也许会长达30年,但是利率在30年间并不是固定的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选