It has destroyed jobs quickly, but not long ago it was also creating them in unprecedented Numbers.
它能迅速的减少工作岗位，但不久后也会以前所未有的数量创造工作岗位。
It's hard to believe now, but not long ago economists were congratulating themselves over the success of their field.
现在说起来真叫人难以置信，但就是不久前，经济学家们还在为他们领域里取得的成就自行庆功摆好。
Computers were invented not long ago, but they are very useful for us.
电脑发明的历史虽然不长，但它们对我们却很有用。
Not long ago, when his cat died, he cried and understood grief for the first time, but he knows he is difficult to live with because he cannot grasp what others are feeling.
不久前他的猫死了，为此他哭了一场，这是他第一次感受到悲痛。但是他知道，别人和他一起生活会很困难，因为他还是不能理解别人的感情。
On the other side there's the depiction, worn with age, of something that was important long, long ago, but not to me.
在另一面，随着岁月的流逝，描绘的东西在很久很久以前是有着重要的价值的，但对我而言无足轻重。
It sounds fanciful. But so too, not that long ago, did rapid and routine intercontinental air travel.
这听起来有点异想天开，但很久以前，洲际快速航空旅行也被如此认为。
But maybe that is not the way things are; maybe everything was calculated long ago, a plan laid out that has only now taken effect?
但或许事情不只这样的；或许每件事很久以前就筹划过了，实施的计划现在生效了吗？
The answer, in the magazine’s Franz Kafka’s Garage column, is: “Long ago, half-ton pickups could haul half a ton.” But competition led to more capable trucks, though the name did not change.
答案在一本叫<弗兰茨卡夫卡>的杂志上的一个车库专栏中作出了解答:"很久以前 半吨的小型卡车能拖拉半吨的货物."
One has to wonder what each person is doing today, but I know what they are feeling – that was me not so long ago.
虽然很难了解别人每天都在干什么，但我知道他们都在想什么——因为我不久前也有同样感受。
He had worked as a fisherman for many years, but once long ago he may, or may not, have played the tenor sax in a dance band in Istanbul. It was hard to know exactly what he was trying to tell me.
纳希打了很多年的鱼，但是在很久以前，他也许在伊斯坦布尔的一个舞厅乐队里吹过高音萨克斯管，但我不能确定，因为很难听得懂他到底对我说了些什么。
Not long ago, it was anything but dull, expanding at an astronomical rate through one big deal after another.
不久以前，它除了愚钝，还有以天文数字的速度通过一个又一个大交易扩充外，几乎是不值得一提的。
That any traces at all remain from so long ago is astounding, and anyway it is not the completeness of the fossil record but its consistency that matters.
这些延伸到过去的印迹令人震撼，虽然这些并不是全部的线索，但是重要在于化石记录着过去到现在的连带关系。
He is among us not as a vague memory of a person who lived long ago but as a real, life-giving presence that transforms us.
祂在我们中间，并不是以一个故去的人的虚幻的形象存在，而是以真实，赋予生命的临在改变我们。
Not long ago a single Bitcoin sold for less than a dollar, but in recent months the price climbed to $8, then to $20, then above $30, before falling back to $18, the current level.
不久前，一比特币价格不到一美元，但在近几个月中，它的价格上升到8美元，然后到20美元，然后超过30美元，后来又回落到18美元这个当前价位。
Had it been a drugs issue, she would have been suspended a long time ago, but this is a unique problem for which the IAAF's rules do not make provision.
如果是一个违禁药物的案件，那她早就得到处罚了。但现在是一个很独特的情况，国际田联在这方面还没有相应的规则。
Nisan told me that not long ago he had a real girlfriend, but that she dumped him.
尼森告诉我，不久之前自己有一个真实的女友，后来被她甩了。
A decade ago small surpluses were common in many rich countries (although not in Japan), but these are long gone.
十年前，小额盈余在很多富裕国家是普遍现象（虽然不包括日本），但是今非昔比。
He never thought it would be that way with Mary, a sharp, ambitious businesswoman in her own right, but not long after they'd been married, five years ago, he'd started to wonder about her.
他从来没想过如果玛丽——一个聪明而雄心勃勃的成功女商人——也会这样做，但结婚五年后不久，他就开始对她感到怀疑。
Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
又在两道城墙中间挖一个聚水池，可盛旧池的水。却不仰望作这事的主，也不顾念从古定这事的。
Long ago, I learnt that the future is not what happens to you, but what you make of it.
很久以前我就明白了，未来不是你身上发生的东西，而是你创造出的东西。
Digicel applied long ago for a licence to operate in East Timor, for example, but has not received it.
例如，Digicel很久以前申请在东帝汶的业务执照，最终没有得到许可。
Yes, Sir, but that is long ago; and when her circumstances were very different: I could not be easy to neglect her wishes now.
不错，先生，但那已是很久以前了，而且当时的情况不同。现在要是我无视她的心愿，我会不安心的。
I saw a lady, not long ago, in India, and she had complete paralysis on her left side, a very intelligent woman, but had both anosognosia and somatoparaphrenia - you know what that is, right?
不久前，在印度我见到一位女士，她左边身子完全瘫痪了。她很聪明，不过同时患上了病感失认症和somatoparaphrenia症——你知道那是什么，是吗？
The painting was ready long ago, but that is not the point.
画在很久以前就已经准备好了，但那不是关键。
It was not that long ago it was thought to be quite impossible, but now the idea of meeting us has expanded your understanding.
在并不久远以前，它被认为是完全不可能的，但是现在与我们见面的想法已经扩展了你们的理解。
In springtime, Florida becomes the host of a beachside bacchanal for college students, but not so long ago, it was a relatively low-key tourist destination.
春天的佛罗里达成了大学生狂欢的海滨胜地，不过不久之前，这儿还是个人气不怎么高的旅游景点。
Researchers have long believed that exercise boosts smarts but there was not any hard scientific evidence until a few years ago.
研究人员一直认为，锻炼会提高人的灵敏性，但是直到几年前，也没有任何确凿的科学证据。
Researchers have long believed that exercise boosts smarts but there was not any hard scientific evidence until a few years ago.
研究人员一直认为，锻炼会提高人的灵敏性，但是直到几年前，也没有任何确凿的科学证据。
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