a long time ago

A long time ago, there was a farmer, in a Christmas Day encounter poor children, he warmly welcomed the children.

在很久以前，曾有一位农民，在圣诞节那天遇到一个穷苦小孩，他热情地接待了这个小孩。

A long time ago, a man in the state of Wei did not take a fancy to anything in the world, except keeping cats as pets.

古时候，卫国有一个人，对世上所有的东西，都不怎么喜欢，却只爱养猫。

If I thought only of myself, you know that I would have been free a long time ago, and I would have been rid of these unsettling anxieties.

如果我只考虑我自己，你知道，很早以前我就可以得到释放，我本来可以摆脱这些不安的焦虑。

Well, you know, it goes back to the beginning of the formation of the personal computer industry, which--that sounds like a long time ago.

嗯，你知道，这要追溯到，个人电脑产业的形成初期，听起来相当久远了。

'I gave up a long time ago trying to anticipate the U. S. policy on wind, ' he said.

他说，很早以前我就放弃了对美国风能政策的预测。

[I wrote the letter] a long time ago to say we are not ready to sell any of our players. I don't remember when but they did not write back.

在很久之前（我曾经给他们写过一封信），我告诉他们我们不准备卖走我们任何一个球员，我记不清楚具体是什么时候了，但他们却没有给我回信。

He and I look alike, his birth certificate says his father was mine, and I wish Id known about him a long time ago.

里昂和我长得很像。他的出生证表明他的父亲就是我的父亲。要是很久以前就认识了里昂，那该多好。

A long time ago, there was an old tiger. He did not often go to look for food himself.

很久以前，有一只年迈的老虎。他经常不出去找食物。

He had once thought to gouge it out, but that had been a long time ago, and as time passed in the silence of the Waste, he had forgotten.

他曾经想过把这个标志挖去，但那是很久以前的事了。在寂静的荒野地，随着时间的流逝，他逐渐忘记了。

A group of swan geese, in their usual formation, fly in the dark welkin to the south to which they said goodbye such a long time ago.

在灰暗的天宇之上，一群人字形的大雁，要飞去久别的南方。

If I wanted to quit, I would have done it a long time ago. I didn't come here to quit.

要是我想不干，我早就会那么做了。我不是来认输的。

That was a long time ago ; she and her brothers and sisters were all grown up ; her mother was dead .

那是很久以前的事了，她和兄弟姐妹都已经长大了；她的母亲死了。

A long time ago, there was an emperor . One day, he told his horseman how much land he could cover on his horse would be his.

很久很久以前，存在着一位皇帝。一天，他告诉他的骑手，说他能骑马奔跑过的土地，皇帝都将会把那些土地归于他名下。

If there was life of our kind, the organic kind, on the surface of Venus a long time ago, then what happened to that life?

如果有我们的生命种类，有机类很久以前出现在金星表明，后来生命发生了什么？

Her hand was cold and there was a scar on her wrist, as if something had cut her skin a long time ago.

她的手腕上有一道疤，好像是很早以前被什么东西割破的。

A long time ago his love of medical research was already expressed through a large donation which he made to the Caroline Institute.

很久以前给卡罗琳学院的一大笔捐款也显示了他对医学研究的热爱。

" He did not comment on Tse's injury, except to say that the actor " recovered a long time ago.

但是他没有就谢君豪受伤一事多说什么，只是说他“很早就康复了”。

"Honestly, it was such a long time ago, " she said. "It was a big learning process for me. "

“坦白说，这事过去很久了。”她说，“这对我是一个漫长的学习过程。”

A long time ago, back in June of 2009, we were planning the launch of my novel The Year of the Flood and I was building a website for it.

很久以前，那是2009年的6月份，我们正在计划发布我的新小说TheYearoftheFlood，而我也正准备为此创建一个网站。

One good thing about living alone is that you don't have to wake up in the arms of a man who you used to love a long time ago.

独居的好处之一是，你不必在一个很久以前爱过的人的臂弯醒来。