1. But in recent years, as environmental damage has increased, signs of change have sprung up in various pockets around the world.
    但近年来，随着环境损害的日益严重，世界各地已经出现了许多变化的迹象。

2. By announcing this, it joined more than 300 other U.S. companies that had admitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that they had made payments of one kind or another — bribes, extra discounts, etc. — in recent years.
    这一事实的披露，使克莱斯勒与其他300多家美国公司一样，向美国证券交易委员会承认自己近年曾有过某种形式的支出，像贿赂、额外打折等等。

3. We already see that. One recent estimate is that one-sixth of all fourteen- to twenty-four-year-olds in America — mostly males — are currently "disaffected and disconnected".
    我们已经看到了这一点。最新的一项估计表明，美国所有14至24岁的人当中有六分之一--大多数为男性--现在已 "心存不满，与社会格格不入"。

4. The recent flooding in the south was a calamity.
    最近南方的洪水是一场灾难。

5. The chart showed the company´s rapid growth in recent years.
    图表显示了该公司近年来的迅速发展。

6. The passage is an excerpt from my recent novel.
    这段话是从我最近一本小说中选录的。

7. To get a full appreciation of what this means we must turn first to some recent human inventions.
    要透彻理解这句话的意义，我们应先回顾一下人类最近的几项发明。

8. The tree was planted near the church fifty years ago, but it is only in recent years that it has gained an evil reputation.
    该树是50年前栽在教堂附近的，但只是近几年才得到了一个坏名声。

9. The former Prime Minister, Mr. Wentworth Lane, was defeated in the recent elections.
    前首相温特沃兹.莱恩先生在最近的大选中被击败。

10. The main causes of recent delays have been linking two very different railroad systems.
    近来工期拖延的主要原因，是要将两条不同的铁路系统连接起来。