A couple of years later, I read the English version of this book and not long ago, I fortunately read the Chinese version as well.
几年后我读了英文版本，不久之前，我又有幸读了中文版本。
Not long ago, when his cat died, he cried and understood grief for the first time.
不久前，他的猫死了，他哭了，这是他第一次理解悲伤。
Not long ago, researches learned that four-day olds could understand addition and subtraction.
不久前，研究人员发现4天大的婴儿能够理解加减法。
Not very long ago, it was also unthinkable that a virus would shut down nations and that safety nets would be proven so disastrously lacking in flexibility.
不久以前，人们还无法想象一种病毒能使众多国家封闭，而安全网被证明是如此灾难性地缺乏灵活性。
That newspaper paragraph he had read so long ago had been true, after all. The first-class magazines did not pay on acceptance, and they paid well.
他很久以前在报上读到的那一段话毕竟没有错：第一流的杂志的确是一经采用立即付酬的，而且稿酬从优。
Fortunately, my high school girlfriends and I vowed long ago not to let this happen.
幸运的是，很早以前，我与我的一帮高中女友们曾立下誓言不让这样的事发生。
We should have expected them, and yet they came as a surprise and made us reflect on what had occurred not that long ago in the fields we were passing.
我们本来应该想到会看见这些墓地，但它们仍使我们感到意外，并让我们想到在不太久的以前，在我们经过的这片田野上发生过怎样的事情。
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。
NOT long ago economists and policymakers in America clung to hopesthat the economy, after lurching through the depths of a financialcrisis earlier this year, would rebound in the second six months.
美国的经济学家和政策制定者在不久前还认为，在淌过本年早些时候爆发的金融危机的深水沟以后，经济将在下半年复苏。
In fact, there was a time when you were never connected to the online world (not that long ago) and (gasp!) you survived.
实际上，不久之前人们是根本无法在网络世界里交流和联系的。(注意！)
The second caveat is that once you look at the euro and the yen, the dollar has been here before, and not that long ago.
第二就是，相对于欧元和日元，美元在不久之前曾经下跌到过目前的水平。
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。
NOT long ago, the value of companies resided mostly in things you could see and touch.
不久以前，公司的价值主要在于那些你能看到能接触到的东西。
PV: Not that long ago, they felt maybe they could eventually eliminate their branch offices, and customers would be content to interact with them through ATM-type systems and call centers.
PV：不久以前，他们认为他们可能最终将会取消他们的分支办公室，客户将对通过AT M类的系统与他们互动和呼叫中心感到满意。
Not long ago, newspapers and magazines reported that, by the end of the century, redheads, of whom I am one, will be extinct. Gone.
不久之前，新闻杂志纷纷报道，本世纪末红头发的人——本人也是其中之一——将会绝迹，也就是消失、完蛋。
Not long ago, Castresana contacted me again, and for the first time in a while he sounded enthused.
不久前，卡斯特雷萨纳再度联系了我，一段时间以来他的声音头回透着热情。
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。
The researchers say the scene depictsthe dramatic - and violent - clashes that were taking place long, long ago, in a galaxy not very far away.
研究人员说这一场景描绘了很久很久以前，离我们不远处的一个星系内部壮观而暴烈的缠斗撞击。
This photo was taken several months ago, just before he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and not long before my daughter was born.
这张照片拍摄于数个月前，不久他被诊断出患了2型糖尿病，没过多长时间我女儿出生了。
Not so long ago this room, with its Arabic texts and Webster's dictionary, was for studious children. Now it is home to prisoners of war.
这间屋子和里面的阿拉伯语教科书以及韦氏词典本来是孩子们学习的乐园，现在成了战俘营。
Not so long ago that would have been the preserve of an elite group of companies and institutions which had the necessary financial and technical clout to perform such feats.
而不久以前，能做到这一点的只有精英团体——拥有做出此等壮举所必需的财务和技术能力的公司和机构。
Not long ago China and Russia wanted to put off the whole process.
因为就在不久前，中国和俄罗斯还想推迟整个进程。
Technological feats such as self-driving cars and voice-recognition and translation programmes, not long ago a distant hope, are now realities.
无人驾驶汽车、语音识别和翻译等技术性成就，不久前还是一个遥远的梦想，现在已成现实。
Not so long ago I was an expectant father. I had questions, a lot of questions actually, and what I found was very few good places to get answers.
不久以前我还是一名准爸爸。我有一些问题，事实上是许多问题，但是我鲜少找到好地方去得到答案。
Not long ago, with the country entering a recessing and Japan at its prebubble peak, the U.S. workforce was derided as poorly educated and one of primary cause of the poor U.S. economic performance.
不久前，随着美国经济陷入衰退，日本正处于泡沫破灭前的高峰期，美国工人被嘲讽没有受过良好教育，并且被认为这是美国经济不景气的主要原因之一。
Greece was hit by the sovereign debt crisis not long ago and stands at a critical moment of overcoming difficulties.
不久前，希腊遭受主权债务危机冲击，正处在克服困难的关键时期。
Not so long ago Japanese wives put up with any amount of infidelity and abuse.
在不久前，日本的妻子们还忍受着各种背叛和虐待。
It got into television 30 years ago and moved into financial services not long after; Mondadori was acquired in 1991.
30年前公司进军电视行业，此后不久开展金融服务业，1991年收购蒙达多利出版集团。
It got into television 30 years ago and moved into financial services not long after; Mondadori was acquired in 1991.
30年前公司进军电视行业，此后不久开展金融服务业，1991年收购蒙达多利出版集团。
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