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1. A hundred years ago people scoffed at the idea that man would ever fly.

100年前人们对人类能飞起来这个观点嗤之以鼻。

2. There were lots of buffaloes in the North America 100 years ago.

100年前，北美有大量的野牛。

3. He ran away as a boy thirty years ago, and his family has never heard from him since.

30年前他还是孩子的时候就离开了家，从此，他家里人一直没有得到他的消息。

4. The girl went into a coma after the car accident three months ago, and has not woken up yet.

3个月前，汽车出事故以后，这个姑娘就昏迷过去了，至今还没有苏醒过来。

5. The tree planted near the church fifty years ago has had a reputation for being mentioned in a newspaper recently.

50年前在教堂附近种的这棵树，最近由于被一家报纸提及而出了名。

6. I bowed out five years ago when I was sixty.

5年前,当我60岁时就退休了。

7. He joined the army a year ago.

一年以前，他参军了。

8. He was an unknown painter one year ago.

一年前，他还是一个不为人知的画家。

9. An ancient record-player ground out some tune long ago.

一架古老的留声机沉重地奏出很久以前的曲调。

10. I went to Portugal three years ago.

三年前，我去过葡萄牙。

11. Some time ago you told us that ...

不久前贵方告知我方。。。

12. Take him seriously; he is not the suckling he was two years ago.

不要小看他;他已不是两年前的那个乳臭未乾的人了。

13. I buy two exercise-book two weeks ago, but I haven't buy any since.

两周以前我买了两本练习本，但后来就再没买过练习本。

14. His health began to break two years ago.

两年前他的健康状况开始变糟。

15. I hunted with a musket two years ago.

两年前我用滑膛枪打猎。

16. Twenty years ago my brothers and sisters all had to wear hand-me-downs.

二十年前我们兄弟姊妹都必须穿旧衣服。

17. Twenty years ago, his father was very rich and was in possession of a farm.

二十年前，他父亲很富，有一个农场。

18. The western part of America was lawless 200 years ago.

二百年前，美国西部是没有法纪的。

19. The population has increased from 1.2 million 10 years ago to 1.8 million now.

人口从10年前的120万已增加到现在的180万。

20. A pound today buys much less than it did a year ago.

今天一英镑远远买不到一年前能买的那麽多东西。

21. He came here two years ago.

他两年前来到这里。

22. He was washed out two years ago.

他两年前破产了。

23. He left home two weeks ago and we haven't heard from him since.

他两星期以前离开了家，到现在我们一直没有他的消息。

24. He took to studying English 5 years ago.

他五年前开始学英语。

25. They started a few minutes ago, and we must hurry to catch up.

他们几分钟前已出发,我们必须赶紧追上。

26. They began the club about four years ago.

他们大约在四年前创办该俱乐部的。

27. They were supposed to be here an hour ago.

他们应该在一小时以前到达这里。

28. How quickly suntan disappears! You wouldn't think they were brown as berries only a month ago.

他们晒黑的皮肤这么快就变白了。你真难想像一个月前他们晒得又红又黑，像熟浆果一样。

29. He lives in a house which was build ten years ago.

他住在一座10年前建造的房子。

30. He hit upon a photo taken ten years ago.

他偶然发现一张十年前拍的照片。

31. He laid the book on the book shelf a moment ago.

他刚才把这本书放在书架上。

32. He was here a moment ago.

他刚才还在这里。

33. He and his wife busted up a year ago.

他和他的妻子一年前分居了。

34. He's a different man from what he was 10 years ago.

他和十年前不一样。

35. He dipped into medicine a few years ago.

他在几年前曾涉猎过一阵医学。

36. He broke away from that lawless group years ago.

他在几年前脱离了那个非法团体。

37. He came here a scant three months ago.

他将近三个月以前才到这里。

38. He died in an automobile accident years ago.

他数年前死於车祸。

39. His advancement to major came two years ago.

他於两年前被提升为少校。

40. He was lost in the interior of Africa many years ago.

他於许多年前在非洲腹地失踪。

41. His dad snuffed it a couple of years ago.

他爸爸两年前就吹灯了。

42. His novels were in vogue ten years ago.

他的小说十年前风靡一时。

43. But with this type of Red Tide in Ago Bay, we unfortunately still don't know the cause.

但对于AGOBAY的赤潮类型，我们还没有找到原因。

44. Some time ago, however, a peculiar fish was caught near Madagascar.

但是不久前，在马达加斯加附近捕到了一条怪鱼。

45. The author is planning to refine on his work of five years ago.

作者打算把他5年前的著作修改得更完美些。

46. Ever since your product entered our market two years ago, it has shown a great market potential.

你们产品自从两年以前进入我们市场以来，显示出了很大的潜力。

47. You'd better not wear such ties, because they went out three years ago.

你最好不要打这些领带，因为它们三年前就不流行了。

48. If they have come along here ten or fifteen years ago they might have been let in on the ground floor of a lot of things.

假如他们在十年或十五年以前来到这我儿的话，他们就可以在许多生意上获得与创办人同等的利益了。

49. Only very, very rarely does someone so far out of the political swim as Jerry Brown, who last held political office almost a decade ago, manage to win the presidential nomination of a major party.

像布朗这样远离政海——他最后一次从政几乎是十年以前的事——而能设法赢得主要政党提名竞选总统，实在是一件绝无仅有之事。

50. He arrived in this country six years ago without a penny.

六年前，他来到这个国家时一文不名。

51. Several days ago, I reserved two rooms for Professor Johnson for the night to November10.

几天前，我为约翰逊教授预订了两间11月10日晚租用的客房。

52. These bandits were arrested several days ago.

几天前，这些歹徒被逮捕了。

53. A few years ago, sociology is the most popular subject for undergraduate.

几年之前，社会学是大学本科生最欢迎的课程。

54. He took a friend's life a few years ago.

几年前他杀死了一位朋友。

55. A few years ago this factory was still regarded as the Cinderella of the printing trade, but now it is very famous.

几年前这个工厂还被认作印刷业的灰姑娘，但现在它已非常有名气。

56. People seldom or never bought silk garments a few years ago.

几年前，人们几乎是不买丝绸服装的。

57. The government introduced universal secondary education years ago.

几年前，政府就倡导普及中等教育。

58. A few Sundays ago it reached rock bottom when the minister preached his wife, the organist and the two presiding officers for that date.

几星期前牧师向他的妻子、风琴手及两个主持会务的干事宣讲那一天的教义时，会众的人数降到了最低点。

59. Speaking from memory, I think it was ten years ago.

凭记忆讲，那是十年前的事了。

60. The spaceship Astra which left the earth a short time ago, will be travelling three hundred miles into space.

刚刚离开地球的阿斯特拉号宇宙飞船将飞行三百英里进入太空。

61. It rained a while ago, but it's fine now.

刚才下雨了，但现在天很好。

62. I saw the policemen file away a moment ago.

刚才我看见警察排成一列纵队出发了。

63. Ten years ago, I went to the tropics for the first time.

十年前我第一次到热带去。

64. Ten years ago this dress was considered the last word in elegance.

十年前这种连衣裙还算是最高雅的款式呢。

65. Jim and his wife bust up a year ago.

吉姆和他的太太一年前分居了。

66. Flared trousers went out years ago.

喇叭裤多年前就不时兴了。

67. A dispute over an inheritance forty or fifty years ago led to a family feud which exists to this day.

四五十年前两家为继承财产发生纠葛结下的宿仇持续至今。

68. A long, long time ago, cowboys were wanderers, driving their herd from place to place, looking for fresh grass and water.

在很久很久以前，牧童都是游牧者，赶着他们的牧群到处寻找青草和水源。

69. On larger farms this method of reaping went out long ago.

在较大的农场上，这种收割方式早过时了。

70. The earth was formed aeons ago.

地球形成於亿万年前。

71. Most people are better-off than ten years ago.

大多数人比十年前更富有。

72. Nearly30 years ago he bought his first job lot of50 books for$3.

大约三十年前，他花了3美元第一次整批买下50本书。

73. Short hair came back into vogue about ten years ago.

大约十年前短发又开始流行起来了。

74. The solar system was formed 4.5 billion years ago.

太阳系是四十五亿年前形成的。

75. Unemployment has reached a level that would not have been thinkable ten years ago.

失业问题已达到严重地步，在十年前是难以想像的。

76. She left school three years ago and has worked as a nurse ever since.

她三年前毕业,从那时起便一直当护士。

77. She leave school three year ago and have work as a nurse ever since.

她三年前毕业，从那时起便一直当护士。

78. She killed herself two years ago.

她两年前自杀了。

79. Her son was enrolled for military service a couple of years ago.

她儿子於两三年前应募入伍。

80. She arrived in this country ten years ago.

她十年前到达这个国家。