1. Boxing matches were very popular in England two hundred years ago.
    两百多年前，拳击比赛在英国是非常盛行的。

2. Boxing matches were very popular in England two hundred years ago.
    两百多年前，拳击比赛在英国是非常盛行的。

3. But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even their sagas, if they had any, are forgotten.
    但是，和我们相似的原始人生活的年代太久远了，因此，有关他们的传说既使有如今也失传了。

4. Boxing matches were very popular in England two hundred years ago.
    两百年前，拳击比赛在英国非常盛行。

5. But sometimes she would sit by the window and think of the evening long ago.
    但有时她会坐在窗前，回想一下很久以前的那个夜晚。

6. We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write.
    我们从书籍中可读到5,000年前近东发生的事情，那里的人最早学会了写字。

7. It is even more remarkable that as long ago as the 1960s, an Englishman, Leon Bagrit, was able to predict some of the uses of computers which we know today.
    就更觉得英国人莱昂.巴格瑞特有着非凡的能力。他在60年代就能预言我们今天知道的计算机的一些用途。

8. When a light passenger plane flew off course some time ago, it crashed in the mountains and its pilot was killed.
    不久前，一架轻型客机偏离了航线，在山区坠毁，飞行员丧生。

9. We had some shoes like those a month ago,
    一个月前我们有这要的鞋。

10. When a Greek philosopher said 2,000 years ago that it isn't events that matter but our opinion of them, this is what he was talking about.
    2,000年前的一位希腊哲学家说过，重要的不是事件本身，而是我们对事件的看法，他说的正是此意。