四级When Ted Komada started teaching 14 years ago at killip elementary, he didn't know how to manage a classroom and was struggling to connect with students.

14年前，当Ted Komada开始在killip小学教书时，他不知道如何管理教室，并努力与学生沟通。

六级More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation b

十多年前，范德比尔特大学的认知科学家约翰·布兰斯福德（John Bransford）和丹尼尔·施瓦茨（Daniel Schwartz）发现，年轻人区别于儿童的不是保留事实或将先验知识应用于新情况的能力

考研When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10, 000 years ago, they didn't have time to wonder much about anything besides finding food.

一万年前，当我们的祖先是猎人和采集者时，除了寻找食物，他们没有时间对任何事情感到好奇。

高考I last saw him a few months ago.

我上次见到他是几个月前。

四级"In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago," Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, life Reimagined.

“事实上，除了几十年前进行的几项小型试点研究外，几乎没有确凿的证据证明中年危机，”芭芭拉·哈格蒂在她的新书《生活重新想象》中写道。

考研Ellen Marram quit as chief of Tropicana a decade ago, saying she wanted to be a CEO.

埃伦·马拉姆十年前辞去了Tropicana首席执行官的职务，说她想成为一名首席执行官。

高考I learned this lesson from an experience many years ago.

我从多年前的一次经历中吸取了这个教训。

高考If the copyright date of your current dictionary shows that it was published five or more years ago, consider investing in a more recent edition.

如果你的字典的版权日期显示它是在五年前出版的，请考虑投资一个更近的版本。

六级Writing was only invented 5,500 years ago

写作是5500年前才发明的

四级So it may seem rather strange that I have returned to college to finish the degree I left undone some four decades ago.

因此，我回到大学去完成四十年前没有完成的学位，这似乎有点奇怪。

考研A couple of Christmases ago, my youngest stepdaughter, who was 9 years old at the time, got a Superman T-shirt for Christmas.

几年前的圣诞节，我最小的继女，当时9岁，在圣诞节得到了一件超人T恤。

高考Several years ago I received a letter from seventeen-year-old kerry, who described herself as a world-class fault-finder, almost always bothered by things.

几年前，我收到了一封来自17岁的克里的信，她自称是世界级的挑剔者，几乎总是被事情所困扰。

考研When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10,000 years ago, they didn’t have time to wonder much about anything besides finding food.

一万年前，当我们的祖先是猎人和采集者时，除了寻找食物，他们没有时间对任何事情感到好奇。

四级The secret to eating less and being happy about it may have been cracked years ago—by McDonald's.

少吃多开心的秘诀可能早在几年前就被麦当劳破解了。

六级More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called preparation for future learning.

十多年前，当时就读于范德比尔特大学的认知科学家约翰·布兰斯福德（John Bransford）和丹尼尔·施瓦茨（Daniel Schwartz）发现，年轻人区别于儿童的不是保留事实或将先前知识应用于新环境的能力，而是他们称之为未来学习准备的素质。

高考Twenty-five years ago, there were hardly any education programs for environment.

25年前，几乎没有任何环境教育项目。

考研Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.

现在，国家最高专利法院似乎完全准备缩减商业方法专利，自10年前首次授权以来，商业方法专利一直备受争议。

高考A tool developed just a couple of years ago by a young farmer, Jonathan Dysinger, in Tennessee, with a small loan from a local slow money group.

几年前，田纳西州的一位年轻农民乔纳森·迪辛格（Jonathan Dysinger）利用当地一家慢钱组织的小额贷款开发了一种工具。

高考The same surveys also indicate that the rate of parental involvement is greater today than it was a generation ago.

同样的调查也表明，如今父母的参与率比上一代人更高。

六级Picture a typical MBA lecture theatre twenty years ago

想象二十年前一个典型的MBA演讲厅

六级I've been looking for a suitable place since I got here six months ago.

自从我六个月前来到这里以来，我一直在寻找一个合适的地方。

四级The properly-named startup "Morning-After Maids", was launched about a month ago in Auckland by roommates Rebecca Foley and Catherine Arthurs.

一个月前，由室友丽贝卡·福利（Rebecca Foley）和凯瑟琳·阿瑟斯（Catherine Arthurs）在奥克兰创办了一家名为“早安女佣”的初创公司。

高考On one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner.

在几年前的一次纽约之旅中，尤多拉·韦尔蒂决定带几个纽约朋友出去吃饭。

高考I was able to buy it a little over a year ago because I had my relatives give me money for my birthday instead of clothes that wouldn't fit.

一年多前，我买了它，因为我的亲戚给了我生日礼物，而不是不合身的衣服。

四级Most roads, bridges, transit, water systems, the electric grid, and communications networks were installed 50 to 100 years ago, and they are largely taken for granted until they fail.

大多数道路、桥梁、交通、供水系统、电网和通信网络都是50至100年前安装的，在出现故障之前，它们基本上被视为理所当然。

六级The graduation rate among 25- to 34-year-olds is no better than the rate for the 55- to 64-year-olds who were going to college more than 30 years ago.

25-34岁的人的毕业率并不比30多年前上大学的55-64岁的人高。

六级And if you suspected that the workplace had gotten more stressful than it was just a few decades ago, you're right.

如果你怀疑工作场所的压力比几十年前更大，你是对的。

四级Years ago, the government made money by selling public lands, but most of the best public lands have now been sold.

几年前，政府通过出售公共土地赚钱，但现在大部分最好的公共土地都被出售了。

考研We suddenly can't remember where we put the keys just a moment ago, or an old acquaintance's name, or the name of an old band we used to love.

我们突然记不起刚才把钥匙放在哪里了，记不起一个老熟人的名字了，记不起我们过去喜欢的老乐队的名字了。

高考You bought it from us on May 1st, only three weeks ago.

你是5月1日从我们这里买的，就在三周前。

考研Even in traditional offices, "the lingua franca of corporate America has gotten much more emotional and much more right-brained than it was 20 years ago," said Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn.

哈佛商学院教授南希·科恩（Nancy Koehn）说，即使在传统的办公室，“美国企业界的通用语也比20年前更加情绪化、更加右脑。”。

六级We can make a very good estimate from the fossil record that humans probably evolved naked skin around a million and a half years ago and meanwhile they mostly lost their coat of fur.

我们可以从化石记录中做出一个很好的估计，人类大概在一百五十万年前进化出了裸露的皮肤，而与此同时，他们大部分都失去了皮毛。

六级Writer friends of mine pay good money to get the Freedom software that enables them to disable the very Internet connections that seemed so emancipating not long ago.

我的作家朋友们花了很多钱买了自由软件，使他们能够禁用不久前看起来如此解放的互联网连接。

考研A century ago, the immigrants from across the Atlantic included settlers and sojourners.

一个世纪前，来自大西洋彼岸的移民包括定居者和旅居者。

高考Measles, which once killed 450 children each year and disabled even more, was nearly wiped out in the united states 14 years ago by the universal use of the MMR vaccine.

麻疹曾一度每年导致450名儿童死亡，甚至更多儿童致残。14年前，由于MMR疫苗的普遍使用，麻疹在美国几乎被消灭。

四级A new study finds that McDonald's posted its slowest drive-through times since this survey was first conducted 15 years ago.

一项新的研究发现，麦当劳发布了自15年前首次进行此项调查以来最慢的乘车时间。

四级Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.

大麦是一个意外的发现：据研究人员称，大麦是在欧亚大陆西部驯化的，直到2000年前才成为中国中部的主食。

考研Up until a few decades ago, our visions of the future were largely - though by no means uniformly - glowingly positive.

直到几十年前，我们对未来的憧憬在很大程度上——尽管并非一成不变——都是积极的。

四级He lost his mother two weeks ago

他两周前失去了母亲

六级He was kidnapped eight months ago.

他八个月前被绑架了。

四级Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?

多年前拥有少量药物的女性是否应该永久无法获得护士执照？

高考Up to two children under ago five may travel free with a paying customer.

最多两名五岁以下儿童可以与付费客户免费旅行。

四级In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago, Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, Life Reimagined.

事实上，除了几十年前进行的几项小型试点研究外，几乎没有确凿的证据证明中年危机，芭芭拉·哈格蒂在她的新书《重新想象生活》中写道。

考研Chances are, your headshots are seen much more often now than a decade or two ago.

很可能，你的头像现在比十年或二十年前更容易被看到。

六级The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world, read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992 and the World Development Summit in Johannesburg three years ago.

“保护和改善人类环境是影响全世界人民福祉和经济发展的一个重大问题，”本次会议的《最后宣言》写道，这是1992年里约热内卢地球首脑会议和三年前约翰内斯堡世界发展首脑会议的第一步。

六级I became aware of the trials of career-focused European woman a few years ago when I met a post-doctoral student from Germany who was then a visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins.

几年前，当我遇到一位来自德国的博士后学生，当时他是约翰·霍普金斯大学的客座研究员，我开始意识到对以职业为中心的欧洲女性的试验。

四级Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.Based on that timing, they indicate barley may have 34 arrived in the re

大麦是一个意外的发现：据研究人员称，这种作物是在欧亚大陆西部驯化的，直到大约2000年前才成为中国中部的主食。根据当时的时间，他们指出，大麦可能已经有34种进入了欧洲大陆

四级But in his short lifetime, which ended exactly 184 years ago today, he would forever revolutionize French gourmet food (美食), write best-selling cook books and think up magical dishes for royals and other important people.

但在他184年前结束的短暂一生中，他将永远改变法国美食(美食), 为皇室成员和其他重要人物撰写畅销烹饪书籍，并想出神奇的菜肴。

六级I just got the idea a few months ago after posting some holiday photos on my social media accounts.

几个月前，在我的社交媒体账户上发布了一些假日照片后，我才有了这个想法。

四级But the word gamification and the widespread, conscious application of the concept only began in earnest about five years ago, Werbach says.

但是沃巴赫说，游戏化这个词和这个概念的广泛、有意识的应用直到大约五年前才真正开始。

六级This is more than twice the level of two decades ago.

这是20年前水平的两倍多。

高考Almost a month ago, he bought popular word game that used little pieces of wood with different letters on them.

大约一个月前，他买了一款流行的文字游戏，游戏中使用了一些小木片，上面有不同的字母。

考研The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing - Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5 billion, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp me

数字经济巨头们的力量和雄心是惊人的——亚马逊刚刚宣布以135亿美元收购高档食品连锁店Whole Foods，但两年前Facebook支付了更高的价格收购WhatsApp me

高考Two years ago, while cathy was watching the Olympics, a dream came into her sweet little head—to be a swimmer.

两年前，当凯西在观看奥运会时，一个梦想进入了她可爱的小脑袋，成为一名游泳运动员。

高考Some 2, 500 years ago Greece discovered freedom.

大约2500年前，希腊发现了自由。

高考Years ago, a critical event occurred in my life that would change it forever.

几年前，我的生活中发生了一件将永远改变它的重大事件。

六级And if you suspected that the workplace had gotten more stressful than it was just a few decades ago, you're right.

如果你怀疑工作场所的压力比几十年前更大，你是对的。

高考Some language experts believe that 10000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 1200 languages between them.

一些语言专家认为，一万年前，当世界上只有五百万到一千万人口时，他们之间可能会说1200种语言。

六级Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of "Friends", a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

近十年前，有人预测，流行情景喜剧《老友记》的观众只需轻敲遥控器，很快就能买到詹妮弗·安妮斯顿的毛衣。

四级She was injured in a car accident two weeks ago and still in critical condition.

她在两周前的一次车祸中受伤，目前情况危急。

高考Long-ago builders could have attached wooden poles to the stones and rolled them across the sand, the scientists say.

科学家们说，很久以前，建筑工人就可以把木杆系在石头上，然后在沙子上滚动。

高考I have not tried reading my newspaper out loud on a train, but, several years ago, I read some chapters from Harry porter to my bored and noisy children.

我没有试过在火车上大声读报纸，但是，几年前，我读了一些章节，从哈利·波特到我那些无聊而吵闹的孩子们。

四级About 15 years ago, I was invited to join a knitting group.

大约15年前，我被邀请加入一个针织团体。

六级More than 100 years ago, American sociologist W.

100多年前，美国社会学家W。

四级What Barth wrote decades ago is even truer today.

巴思几十年前写的东西在今天更加真实。

六级One hundred years ago, Colored was the typical way of referring to Americans of African descent.

一百年前，有色人种是指非裔美国人的典型方式。

四级Peering into the future G) The sharing economy is a little like online shopping, which started in America 15 years ago

展望未来G）共享经济有点像15年前在美国开始的网上购物

考研Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession, but it is down by 640,000from its year ago level.

非自愿兼职人数仍远高于衰退前，但比去年同期减少了64万人。

考研Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized I0 years ago.

现在，国家最高专利法院似乎完全准备缩减商业方法专利，自10年前首次授权以来，商业方法专利一直备受争议。

六级A decade ago, this island's ecosystem was in chaos.

十年前，这个岛屿的生态系统处于混乱之中。

四级While the public sees greater workplace equality between men and women now than it did 20-30 years ago, most believe more change is needed.

虽然公众认为，与20-30年前相比，现在的男女在工作场所更加平等，但大多数人认为需要进行更多的改革。

四级Several years ago, she became interested in eggs and learned the traditional Ukrainian technique to draw her very modern characters.

几年前，她开始对鸡蛋感兴趣，并学习了传统的乌克兰技巧来画她非常现代的人物。

六级There was a time not long ago when new science Ph.

不久前，新科学博士。

高考If anyone had told me three years ago that I would be spending most of my weekends camping.

如果三年前有人告诉我，我周末大部分时间都会去露营。

六级Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.

另一个对高等数学学生有影响力的反馈者是一个名为“问题解决艺术”的在线学校，它大约在13年前开始，现在有15000名用户。

六级Our species originated around 200,000 years ago and underwent tremendous diversification culturally, technologically, linguistically, artistically for 130,000 years.

我们的物种起源于大约20万年前，经历了13万年的文化、技术、语言和艺术上的巨大变化。

六级Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of Friends, a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

近十年前，有人预测，《老友记》是一部颇受欢迎的情景喜剧，只要轻敲遥控器，观众很快就能买到詹妮弗·安妮斯顿的毛衣。

六级What we see today is the product of evolutionary events resulting from the dispersal of a few human populations out of Africa around 60, 000 to 70, 000 years ago.

我们今天看到的是大约6万到7万年前少数人类从非洲散居所导致的进化事件的产物。

考研In the third quarter, CEO turnover was down 23% from a year ago as nervous boards stuck with the leaders they had, according to Liberum Research.

根据Liberum Research的数据，第三季度，CEO的更替率比一年前下降了23%，这是因为紧张的董事会与他们所拥有的领导者纠缠在一起。

高考Three weeks ago, I witnessed a small near-disaster a few miles west of here.

三周前，我目睹了在这里以西几英里处发生的一场小灾难。

高考A year ago, when I was awaiting to hear the results of my college applications, I often went to websites for some type of insider look on what college would be like.

一年前，当我在等待我的大学申请结果时，我经常去一些网站了解大学会是什么样子。

四级He owned a small retail business in Michigan years ago.

几年前，他在密歇根州拥有一家小型零售企业。

四级In fact, they’ve been in use for centuries.25 centuries ago, kites were well-known in China.

事实上，风筝已经使用了几个世纪。25个世纪前，风筝在中国很有名。

四级A few months ago, I was down with a terrible cold which ended in a persistent bad cough.

几个月前，我患了重感冒，最后持续咳嗽。

高考It was on the desk with my book a moment ago.

刚才它和我的书在桌子上。

六级The last time I was in the hermitage, three months ago

上一次我在隐居地是三个月前

考研A century ago Octavia Hill launched the National Trust not to rescue stylish houses but to save“the beauty of natural places for everyone forever”.

一个世纪前，奥克塔维亚·希尔成立了国家信托基金会，目的不是拯救时髦的房屋，而是“为每个人永远保存自然之美”。

六级Several years ago when my grandparents were well into their eighties, they were faced with the reality of no longer being able to adequately care for themselves.

几年前，当我的祖父母快80多岁的时候，他们面临着无法充分照顾自己的现实。

六级Not so long ago, people would have turned up their noses at that kind of dedication to the job.

不久前，人们会对这种对工作的奉献嗤之以鼻。

四级A message in a bottle sent out to sea by a New Hampshire man more than five decades ago was found 1500 miles away and has been returned to his daughter.

五十多年前，一位新罕布什尔州男子在1500英里外的一个瓶子里寄出了一条信息，并将其归还给了他的女儿。

高考This is compared to half of students who had looked for a job by this time two years ago.

相比之下，两年前这个时候有一半的学生已经找到了工作。

六级Let's face it, it wasn't too long ago that the idea of working from anywhere and at anytime was some form of a distant utopian dream,and yet now we can perform almost any office-based task from any location in the world as long as we have access to the in

让我们面对现实吧，就在不久前，随时随地工作的想法还只是一个遥远的乌托邦梦想的一种形式，而现在我们可以在世界上任何地方执行几乎任何基于办公室的任务，只要我们能够访问in

四级That's about 10 seconds more than the industry average — and a lot slower than a decade ago, according to the study, which was commissioned by QSR, an industry trade publication.

这项由行业贸易出版物QSR委托开展的研究表明，这比行业平均水平高出约10秒，比十年前慢了很多。

考研Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter ,Elisabeth ,spoke of the “unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions” Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism ”in society should be profit and the market.

两年前，鲁珀特·默多克（Rupert Murdoch）的女儿伊丽莎白（Elisabeth）谈到“我们这么多机构中令人不安的诚信缺失”，她认为，诚信已经崩溃，因为人们普遍认为社会上唯一的“分类机制”应该是利润和市场。

考研When this practice first started decades ago, it was usually limited to freshmen, to give them a second chance to take a class in their first year if they struggled in their transition to college-level courses.

几十年前，这种做法刚开始时，通常仅限于新生，如果他们在向大学课程过渡过程中遇到困难，他们可以在第一年获得第二次上课机会。

六级However, the last such increase in temperature took place two years ago.

然而，最近一次这样的温度升高发生在两年前。

考研Up until a few decades ago, our visions of the future were largely -- though by no means uniformly-glowingly positive.

直到几十年前，我们对未来的憧憬在很大程度上都是积极的，尽管并不是一成不变的。

高考I got here a few days ago, on Saturday...oh, no, wait a minute...sorry, Friday, not Saturday.

我几天前到的，星期六……哦，不，等等……对不起，星期五，不是星期六。

考研Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch's daughter, Elisabeth, spoke of the "unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions".

两年前，鲁珀特·默多克（Rupert Murdoch）的女儿伊丽莎白（Elisabeth）谈到“我们这么多机构中诚信缺失令人不安”。

六级One hundred years ago, "Colored" was the typical way of referring to Americans of African descent .

一百年前，“有色人种”是指非裔美国人的典型方式。