People moved into the American Southwest more than ten thousand years ago as the last ice age was ending.
VOA: special.2010.07.05
Host: Flashback 29 years ago, and put yourself in the seat here and pretend you were still in school.
主持人:回首29年前,假装你还坐在这儿,还在商学院念书。
Yeah, he's a good player. But a few years ago, one of the reasons that United bought that player,
他是个很好的球员。但是几年前,联队买他的原因之一,
Many years ago, a young man named Giovanni Guasconti left his home in Naples to study in northern Italy.
VOA: special.2011.01.29
This one I learned about in my own research about 20 years ago, and it never ceases to amaze me.
这是在我自己的研究中发现的,大概20年前,它一直让我很吃惊。
The Roman historian Pliny said that Phoenician sailors accidentally discovered how to make glass over three thousand years ago.
VOA: special.2009.09.16
Think about the advent of hedge funds -twenty or twenty-five years ago, hedge funds were a blip on the radar screen.
想想对冲基金刚出现时,差不多20或25年前,它就像雷达屏幕上的一个小点
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
Right. I would say as I reflect back on my college experiences and those listening in the audience should know, I graduated from college 45 years ago.
的确如此,可以这么说,当我回想我的大学生活的时候,想必听众中有人知道,我45年前就从大学毕业了。
Now, a group of research scientists says it has found evidence of a similar event that happened about 13,000 years ago.
VOA: special.2009.01.20
He wants to know if they are the same men who so callously broke their father's heart by selling Joseph, his father's favorite, so many years ago.
他想知道他们是否还是老样子,就像他们曾经卖了约瑟夫,伤了他们父亲的心,多年前,约瑟夫最受父亲宠爱。
It has high mountains. It has valleys formed by ancient ice that cut deep into the Earth millions of years ago.
VOA: special.2009.01.07
Isn't this amazing that 2,000-2,500 years ago, we still have the letters of the man ? who wrote this book?
这不是很神奇吗?已经2,000-2,500,年了,而我们仍握有,写下本书的作者亲笔信?
The story of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the area that is Yosemite National Park begins about 500 million years ago.
VOA: special.2009.01.07
- She said, "When I was dating my husband-- this is thirty years ago-- we were having a tough time.
她说,,“我和我老公拍拖那会儿-,那是30年前的事儿了-,有段时间关系很恶劣。
It is a very old expression. Hot water was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble.
VOA: special.2009.05.10
Aristotle, over 2000 years ago, "Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, " the whole aim and end of human existence."
二千多年前的亚里斯多德,“快乐是人生的意义和目的,人类存在的最终目标“
Rates of breast cancer in Japan, Singapore and South Korea are now three times what they were forty years ago.
VOA: special.2009.03.02
That argument's much less compelling nowadays than I think it would have been 20 or 40 years ago.
这个论点在今天远不及在20年前,或40年前有说服力了
He was sworn-in as president seventy-six years ago during the Great Depression -- the worst economic crisis in the country's history.
VOA: special.2009.05.02
And so it wasn't all that many years ago frankly that you know, certainly, people in this class were still using these things.
这跟多年前完全不一样,当时我们用的就是现在我手头的这种。
Well,experts say the expression appears to have been first used in the United States more than one hundred years ago.
VOA: special.2010.01.17
For example, one of the statistics when I talk to people about the youth online with the study that was done years ago, where they said 1/4 teenager girls had received unwelcome sexual advances on the Internet.
例如,我通过与人们交谈获得一个数据,是关于年轻人上网的一项研究,这一研究是很多年前进行的,研究显示他们称有1/4的十几岁的女孩子,在网络上受到不受欢迎的性挑逗。
The famous Furnace Creek Inn is a beautiful hotel that was built of stone more than seventy-five years ago.
VOA: special.2011.08.03
One that was developed a number of years ago but has been perfected and refined in recent years with very, very good research.
该概念很多年前就已经提出了,但在近年通过高水平的研究才被改进完善
"I thought she was Azalea Adair." "She was." the doctor answered, "until she married Wentworth Caswell twenty years ago.
VOA: special.2010.06.12
It's a fully implantable artificial heart, and it was introduced about seven or eight years ago now.
它是一个完全植入式人工心脏,它是在七八年前发明
Its long history almost came to an end two years ago when a major fire burned its South Hall building.
VOA: special.2009.08.21
He was very famous when I was in graduate school tons and tons of years ago.
我读研究生时他已经非常有名了,多少年前了
I think that many years ago, in the early 90s or 80s, or the 70s even, it was a very dangerous city.
我想很多年以前的八九十年代或者甚至七十年代,它是一个非常危险的城市。
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