Yet not long ago, in two thousand three, Pittsburgh was in financial crisis.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

And then the most surprising thing of all was a study done not long ago, published in 1997 of registered dieticians.

不久前的实验中,让人惊奇的事发生了,在1997年由注册营养学家发表

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That happened not too long ago, but it was just a really fantastic display of all his work.

那是不久前的事情，但它真的极好地展示了他所有的作品。

印象深刻的展示会 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Not long ago, even top college students would likely have had trouble defining sustainability.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

If George Bush described himself not long ago as the decider, you might call Socrates the abstainer.

如果布什不久前,自称是决策者，则苏格格拉底便是疏离者。

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Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon says peace talks could have resumed long ago, if it were not for the refusal of President Abbas, who is also known as Abu Mazen.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

This is another example, not so long ago--this is December 2003.

这是03年12月的图,也不算太久之前

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Now that everything is did not live), it all seems a long time ago, though practically I still bear traces of the paint." Again, that parenthetical elides the death of the child.

这是莫娜的信：“现在一切都结束了,太可惜了，没能活下来！），一切似乎已经遥远，尽管自己至今,还在脸上留着残妆，“又一次的，这则附言草草提及孩子的死。

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Well, for a thing called main which itself is a function but a function I wrote, a tool I am writing at the moment not like printf which someone else wrote long ago, I have to say where does main start, where does main end, and I do that by using these curly braces.

至于这个名曰main的函数,由我们自己写的函数，也是一个工具,只不过由我们自己编写，而不是像printf那样已经由前人写好了,我们必须要说明main在哪开始，在哪结束，这样我们就要用到大括号了。

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I had an interview not so long ago to get into Leamington College

我不久前参加了利明顿大学的入学面试，

伦敦的时尚学院 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It was basically built not that long ago.

它建成的时间不长。

现代化的地方 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The attack began not all that long ago, really only as late as the seventeenth century.

攻击并未太慢开始，早在十七世纪就开始了。

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And its opposition seems to me to be all together noble for know well men of Athens if I had long ago attempted to be politically active I would long ago have perished and I would benefited neither you nor myself. Now do not be vexed with me when I speak the truth.

而这样的违背在我看起来很高尚,因为可以彻底了解雅典人,如果很早之前,就试图活跃于政治的话,我早就没命了,也就无法造福你们或我自己,不要因为我说出真相而恼火。

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