1.When you look back at your own past to long ago, you are more likely to see things you should have or could have done.
当你回顾你自己更为久远的过去时，你更倾向于看到那些你本该去做或本应该完成的事。
2.No doubt they will be just as intrigued by the chair's uniquely human voices as people were by "belly speaking" long ago.
时，这群人会多么吃惊。无疑地，他们肯定会对椅子居然会说话这件事相当感兴趣，就像从前的人看待“肚子说话”一样。
3.A game against QPR (yes it was that long ago) that had been postponed from earlier in the season.
对QPR的比赛（是的，的确是很久远的事了）是赛季初期延迟到那个时候的。
4.Not long ago John lost his wife, Janet, to cancer. God knows she was a fighter, but in the end the disease won their eight-year battle.
不久之前，约翰的妻子珍昵特患了癌症。上帝知道她是一位勇敢的战斗者，但最后，经过八年的抗争之后，疾病还是夺去了她的生命。
5.Even more interesting, long ago in Italy, the father, on giving away his daughter to the groom, presented him with one of her slippers.
更有趣的是，在很久以前的意大利，当父亲把自己的女儿交给新郎时，送给新郎一只女儿的拖鞋。
6.That is now all changing, and you are beginning to understand concepts that not too long ago would have baffled you.
现在一切都改变了，你现在正开始有了一个在很久之前你就被“迷惑”的概念。
7.Not long ago I was at the checkout of a department store when the man ahead of me turned and made a joke about something he had bought.
不久前我在百货商店付款时，前面的一个男子转过身，就自己买的东西开了个玩笑。
8.Christmas represents the birth of Christ and the hope of a return of the light of love once known by the human species and Earth long ago.
圣诞节象征着基督的诞生以及回归很久以前人类物种与地球所知的爱与光之希望。
9.He is a "force for good" , says the company, which started calling him a "balanced, active lifestyles ambassador" as long ago as 2004.
公司表示，小丑代表着“善的力量”，从2004年起，公司就开始称小丑为“均衡饮食，积极生活大使”。
10.As long ago as the very beginning of our republic, its founders saw that the cities were danger-spots in their plan.
早在建国之初，共和国的缔造者们就已经看到，城市是他们规划中的危险之地。