1. That was a long time ago, wasn´t it?
    那是好久以前的事了。是吗？

2. The Great Pyramid was built nearly five thousand years ago for a king called Khufu.
    大金字塔是在大约5000年以前，为胡夫国王建造的。

3. That was billions of years ago.
    但那几乎是十亿年以前的事了。

4. The light we see coming from some far-off stars started on its journey more than a hundred years ago.
    我们看到的一些远处星星的光就是在一百多年前发出的。

5. This organization was started over twenty-one years ago. Its purpose is to protect land and public resources for people.
    这个组织是在21年前成立的, 其宗旨是为人们保护土地和公共资源。

6. The government has succeeded in increasing use of birth control from 10 percent of the population 20 years ago to 49 percent today.
    印尼政府已成功地扩大了实行节制生育的范围，节育人口已从20年前的10%增加到今天的49%。

7. The next morning she saw he had written below her message: "Wife, I missed you. You thought I was asleep, but I was just resting my eyes and thinking about that peculiar woman who talked to us in church a long time ago.
    第二天早晨，她看到他在她的留言下面写道：“老婆，我想念你。你以为我睡着了，可是我只是合合眼，心里却还在想那位很久以前在教堂对我们说了一番话的怪老太太呢。

8. That was two weeks ago.
    事情发生在两周前。

9. The Japanese spent $10.9 billion for teaching outside of regular classes last year, according to the institute, including $9 billion on jukus for students in the ninth grade or below — almost double the figure spent seven years ago.
    据该机构调查，去年日本人花在正常课堂教学之外的开支为109亿美元，其中90亿是花在课外学校，用于九年级或九年级以下的学生，这几乎是七年前的两倍。

10. The Earth was formed about five billion years ago from a rotating, circular cloud of dust and gases such as hydrogen and nitrogen.
    地球的形成约在50亿年前，起源于一团循环旋转的尘埃和诸如氢、氧之类的气体。