It vanished more than a month ago.

这架飞机已经消失个多月。

About a year ago, I was diagnosed with cancer.

大约年前，我被查出患有癌症。

Long ago Dr yuan had a dream about rice plants as tall as sorghum.

很久以前，袁博士曾梦里看到水稻长得像高粱样高，。

Sports history was made Tuesday night when Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James became the NBA's all-time leading scorer, breaking the record of 38,387 points set more than 38 years ago by another Lakers legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

周二晚上，洛杉矶湖人队球星勒布朗·詹姆斯为了NBA最佳得分手，打破了38多年前由另位湖人队传奇人物卡里姆·阿布杜尔·贾巴尔创造的38,387分的历史记录，创造了体育历史。

A year ago, few of us would have predicted the eventsahead.

年前，我们中很少有人会提前预料到这件事。

These were very early abacuses, which developed around 4,000 years ago into the more traditional style of beads threaded onto rods and set into a frame.

这些都是非常早期的算盘，大约4000年前发展为更传统的形状，将珠子穿过杆并个框架。

The sanctuary abandoned over 50 years ago.

这个50多年前被废弃的圣所。

Three years ago, he was a financial advisor to several foreign government. Today, he is building schools in Burma.

三年前，他做过几个外国政府的财政顾问。如今他缅甸建造校。

10 days ago, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which was first issued by the Society of Gentlemen in Scotland between 1768 and 1777 in Edinburgh, wrote to Lucian.

10天前，《大英百科全书》致函卢西恩。该书由苏格兰绅士协会于1768至1777年间爱丁堡出版。

She began the story a week ago.

她开始写这个故事是个星期以前。

That was uncalled for. Aw! Welcome to two years ago.

刚太刻薄了 哦 欢迎来到两年前。

Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5bn, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp messaging service, which doesn't have any physical product at all.

亚马逊公司刚刚宣布以135亿美元收购了高档杂货连锁店 “全食超市”，而就两年前，脸书以更高的价格收购了 WhatsApp 信息服务，该服务没有任何实体产品。

Wireless fidelity. Technically, it's a standard ensuring that equipment works on a wireless network. It's on analogy with 'hi-fi', for high fidelity, that used to be common for recording some years ago.

Wifi全称为wireless fidelity.(无线保真)，从专业的角度讲，是种确保不需要线缆也可使用因特网的技术。 Wifi和hi-fi（高保真）相似--“高保真”词多年前就出现了，是用来形容唱片音效的。

A long long time ago in China, there was a big scary nasty beast named Nian, whose name means year.

很久很久以前，中国有种野兽叫" 年" ，它体型巨大，长相凶猛，及其危险。

We will be down as soon as we can, said Jane; but I dare say Kitty is forwarder than either of us, for she went up stairs half an hour ago.

“我们马上就下去，也许吉蒂比我们两个都快，因为她上楼有半个钟头了。”

The State of Qin defeated other powers during the Warring States Period 2,200 years ago and established the Qin Dynasty.

2200年前的战国时期，秦国打败了其他国，建立了秦朝。

The tradition of the Dragon Boat Festival started more than 2,000 years ago.

端午节这个传统始于约2000多年前。

Turning now to medical facilities, the town is served by family doctors in several medical practices — fewer than 50 years ago, but each catering for far more patients.

现我们把话题转向医疗设施，我们小镇居民好几种疾病都是找庭医生来看的，虽然现镇上庭医生的数量比50年前要少，但是他们每个人治疗的患者数量都比那时候要多得多。

She gave up eating meat a few years ago.

她几年前开始不吃肉。

And of course, barring surgery, or the fake tan that I got two days ago for work, there's very little that we can do to transform how we look.

当然，除了手术或像两天前我为了工作做的棕 (色的皮肤) ，我们基本上是没法改变外表的。