七年前，当我开办自己的夏令营时，我已经准备好成为一名夏令营营长。
When I opened my own summer camp seven years ago, I was ready to become a camp leader.
我们为动荡时代来临所作的准备差不多一年前就开始了。
Our preparation for the Age of Turbulence began nearly a year ago.
他一边检查食物准备区，一边向我详细解释“如何检查脆薯饼”这款麦当劳几年前就已经推出的产品；并且告诫我不要碰任何东西。
He examines the food-preparation area as he explains, in great detail, the "review of the hash browns" that McDonald's initiated a few years ago — and admonishes me to not touch anything.
两年前，我开始准备我的MBA之旅同时对这个学位抱以厚望。
Two years ago, I was getting ready for my MBA and had high expectations about the programme.
一万年前，日常生活中与人类朝夕相伴的声音在全世界范围内都改变了，随着人类开始采用新方式来准备新食物，真可谓是日日砧杵动，家家捣捶声了，而我们的饮食与周遭环境也将迎来新改观。
Ten thousand years ago, the sound of daily life began to change across the world, as new rhythms of grinding and pounding prepared the new foods that were going to change our diets and our landscapes.
因为没有书，我死命地盯着墙壁看，看呀看，看到了一年前因为准备挂画而钉上的两颗钉子，现在还孤零零地呆在那里。
Instead of reading, I stare at the walls and notice that there are still two empty nails on which I meant - a year ago - to hang pictures.
两百年前的这个月份，新奥尔良的上流社会正在像往常的一样准备着狂欢节。
Two hundred years ago this month, the elite in New Orleans were making their usual preparations for Mardi Gras.
他认为，两年前，在拯救人质时，三名海豹突击队员同时击毙三名索马里海盗，便是这种训练的成果，因为他们做好了应对任何情况的准备。
The simultaneous shooting of three Somali pirates at sea as part of a hostage rescue two years ago was an example of the kind of outcome possible when SEALs prepare for all conditions.
让我带你回到五千年前，一起分享一则古埃及的证实了准备和耐心的强大力量的故事吧。
Let me take you back five thousand years and share with you a story from ancient Egypt that demonstrates the ultimate power of preparation and patience.
截止2015年各州必须采取严格的英语和数学测试新标准，在2020年前美国高中毕业生应做好进一步深造及工作的准备。
By 2015 states would be required to adopt stringent new standards and tests for English and maths, with a goal of being "college - and career-ready" by 2020.
几年前，利比亚在作为国际弃儿期间曾准备好把这个石油国家手上的数十亿美钞少量发放出去。
Several years ago, Libya was primed to dole out some of the billions the oil state held in cash during its time as an international pariah.
那年冬天，他们买了一个数码相机，准备给孙子们一个惊喜，可他们不知道如何把它链接到那台一年前买的电脑上。
In the winter they buy a digital camera as a surprise for the grandchildren, but they don't know how to connect it to the computer they bought a year before.
一个朋友的讲述：十几年前，我选择了一份全职的佛教工作，一个朋友便告诫我，我应该对那份工作的繁琐、那个机构的性质做好心理准备。
A friend's account: When I took up full-time Dharma work more than a decade ago, a friend warned me about the messy nature of the organisation I was going to work in.
四年前不久的某一天，我正准备从高中毕业。而我也正在做出一个人生的重大决定。
A little over four years ago, as I was preparing to graduate from high school, I was in the midst of making a life-altering decision.
几年前，欧洲的大型俱乐部似乎准备考虑与国际足联决裂。
A few years ago Europe's leading clubs seemed to be prepared to contemplate a breach with FIFA.
银行可能会选择死抱住自己的准备金不放，从而削弱了该政策的效力——如同八九年前，日本实行定量宽松政策以对抗通货紧缩时遇到的情况。
Banks may choose to cling on to their reserves, thus undermining the effectiveness of the policy-as happened when Japan used quantitative easing earlier this decade to fight deflation.
大概十二年前，我正好在准备我的真棒巡演，一个小男孩和他的父母亲来加州看我。
About twelve years ago, when I was just about to start my Bad tour, a little boy came with his parents to visit me at home in California.
举一个在50年前常见的例子，假设一支不合格并且疏于准备的球队面对一支专业的具有额外的计划与训练的球队，那么结果一定是后者将获得压倒性的胜利。
If, as was often the case 50 years ago, opposing teams were unfit and under-prepared, then the professional mantra of extra planning and more training yielded a competitive advantage.
因此，8年前，当医生告诉乳癌患者博比·桑德斯，准备为她做比较简单的手术时，她如释重负。
So Bobbie Saunders was relieved when her doctor offered to perform the less radical procedure when she was diagnosed with breast cancer eight years ago.
不像前几年，她今年已经不准备度假了，而且还得担心10年前的阵痛是否会再次降临，她说。
Unlike previous years, she has no vacation plans and is wary of her travails a decade ago, she said.
实际上，我76岁的母亲，一年前为了准备圣诞礼物，她最终决定出版诗集。
And in fact my seventy six year old mother a year ago for Christmas as a Christmas present, she decided to publish her poems finally.
一年前，你的联系人终于认可花一个小时或者一天在Facebook上阅读朋友们如何准备晚饭或一些这样的东西时的人生太过短暂。
A YEAR ago, your correspondent decided life was too short to spend an hour or so a day reading what friends on Facebook were about to cook for supper or some such thing.
其实很多年前导演JamesCameron就已经准备好了剧本，但他觉得当时最好的视觉特效都还不足以应对这部影片所带来的挑战，而现在，是时候了！
Director James Cameron actually put the script away years ago because he decided the best VFX could not handle the challenge at the time. Now is the time.
派杰公司对4500名学生进行了调查，发现在接下来的半年里，有37%的人准备买一部iPhone，而17%的人已经有了iPhone=，一年前的一项类似调查中，这一数字为14%。
Piper Jaffray surveyed 4, 500 students, finding 37% plan to buy an iPhone in the next six months. Already 17% of those asked own an iPhone, compared with 14% in a similar study a year ago.
派杰公司对4500名学生进行了调查，发现在接下来的半年里，有37%的人准备买一部iPhone，而17%的人已经有了iPhone=，一年前的一项类似调查中，这一数字为14%。
Piper Jaffray surveyed 4,500 students, finding 37% plan to buy an iPhone in the next six months. Already 17% of those asked own an iPhone, compared with 14% in a similar study a year ago.
四年前，当意识到从那些在家接受教育的人身上损失了那么多的钱，并且当这些人重新入学时他们又是那么的毫无准备，梅萨便率先发起了Eagleridge项目。
Mesa started Eagleridge four years ago, when it saw how much money it was losing from home-schoolers — and how unprepared some students were when they re-entered the schools.
四年前，当意识到从那些在家接受教育的人身上损失了那么多的钱，并且当这些人重新入学时他们又是那么的毫无准备，梅萨便率先发起了Eagleridge项目。
Mesa started Eagleridge four years ago, when it saw how much money it was losing from home-schoolers — and how unprepared some students were when they re-entered the schools.
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