1.A long time ago, there was a farmer, in a Christmas Day encounter poor children, he warmly welcomed the children.
在很久以前，曾有一位农民，在圣诞节那天遇到一个穷苦小孩，他热情地接待了这个小孩。
2.A long time ago, a man in the state of Wei did not take a fancy to anything in the world, except keeping cats as pets.
古时候，卫国有一个人，对世上所有的东西，都不怎么喜欢，却只爱养猫。
3.If I thought only of myself, you know that I would have been free a long time ago, and I would have been rid of these unsettling anxieties.
如果我只考虑我自己，你知道，很早以前我就可以得到释放，我本来可以摆脱这些不安的焦虑。
4.Well, you know, it goes back to the beginning of the formation of the personal computer industry, which--that sounds like a long time ago.
嗯，你知道，这要追溯到，个人电脑产业的形成初期，听起来相当久远了。
5.'I gave up a long time ago trying to anticipate the U. S. policy on wind, ' he said.
他说，很早以前我就放弃了对美国风能政策的预测。
6.[I wrote the letter] a long time ago to say we are not ready to sell any of our players. I don't remember when but they did not write back.
在很久之前（我曾经给他们写过一封信），我告诉他们我们不准备卖走我们任何一个球员，我记不清楚具体是什么时候了，但他们却没有给我回信。
7.He and I look alike, his birth certificate says his father was mine, and I wish Id known about him a long time ago.
里昂和我长得很像。他的出生证表明他的父亲就是我的父亲。要是很久以前就认识了里昂，那该多好。
8.A long time ago, there was an old tiger. He did not often go to look for food himself.
很久以前，有一只年迈的老虎。他经常不出去找食物。
9.He had once thought to gouge it out, but that had been a long time ago, and as time passed in the silence of the Waste, he had forgotten.
他曾经想过把这个标志挖去，但那是很久以前的事了。在寂静的荒野地，随着时间的流逝，他逐渐忘记了。
10.A group of swan geese, in their usual formation, fly in the dark welkin to the south to which they said goodbye such a long time ago.
在灰暗的天宇之上，一群人字形的大雁，要飞去久别的南方。