1. A long time ago the tiny country of Switzerland was ruled by Austria.
    很久以前,瑞士这个小国被奥地利统治.

2. Art is long, but life is short.
    人生有限，学问无涯。

3. Anthropology was by definition impossible, as long as these distinctions between ourselves and the primitive, ourselves and the barbarian, ourselves and the pagan, held sway over people´s minds.
    只要我们同原始人，我们同野蛮人，我们同异教徒之间存有的区别在人的思想中占主工导地位，那么人类学按其定义来说就无法存在。

4. As long ago as the fourteenth century, an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made the remarkable discovery
    早在14世纪,英国人约翰.霍克伍德就有过非凡的发现:

5. A long-lost brother, who was presumed dead, was really alive all the time and wickedly plotting to bring about the hero´s downfall. And so on.
    主人公一位长期失散的兄弟，大家都以为死了，实际上一直活着，并且正在策划暗算主人公；如此等等，

6. Admittedly it was an unusual pie dish, for it was eighteen feet long and six feet wide.
    这个馅饼盘子确实少见，有18英尺长，6英尺宽。

7. As long ago as 1809, the Swedish Parliament introduced a scheme to safeguard the interest of the individual.
    早在1809年，瑞典论会就建立一个保护公民利益的制度。

8. A planet would have to be a very long way from it to be capable of supporting life.
    那么一颗行星为了维持生命就要离开的它的恒星非常远。

9. After a long period of rain the river may overflow its banks.
    久雨这后，河水会泛滥成灾，

10. ´So long as there´s something to identify, we will give people their money back,´ said a spokeswoman for the Bank.
    "只要有东西可供识别，我们会把钱还给人家的，"银行的一位女发言人说。