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But when America last snapped out of a long, frightening economic funk three decades ago, the metal lost half its value in two years.

不过想想30年前吧，当时的美国从上一次旷日持久且令人恐慌的经济困局中突然走出，金价在两年的时间里下跌了一半。

"For that project, the preliminary discussion and studies phase was decades long, " he said.

“那项工程中，前期探讨及研究阶段长达数十年，”他说。

The Bloomsbury Group in London six decades ago was not much hampered by its lack of a temporal history.

在伦敦的布鲁姆伯利文化圈[1]在六十年前亦并没有因为其缺少世俗的历史受到多少阻碍。

In terms of development, China is at least decades, if not centuries, behind the United States.

就发展程度而言，中国落后美国即使没有数百年，也至少有数十年。

For decades, there has been a stalemate: two peoples with legitimate aspirations, each with a painful history that makes compromise elusive.

几十年来，一直存在着一种僵持局面：有着合理追求的两族人民，因各自的痛苦历史而使妥协可望不可及。

But after the liberalization reforms, this address, which had been used for decades, slowly stopped being used by people.

但是改革开放以后，这个用了几十年的老称呼渐渐地没有人用了。

Decades later he flew around the world in his own corporate jet, but he maintained emotional ties to the period in which he grew up.

几十年后，他坐着自己的喷气式飞机，在世界各地飞来飞去，但他仍维持着同那个时期的情感联系。

From cradle to grave, only a few decades, the length of life, hardness, weight is not only in the calculation process can be realized.

从摇篮到坟墓，只有短短几十年的过程，生命的长度、硬度、重量都是无法计算的，只有在过程中才能够体会。

Indeed, it is possible that, over the next few decades, the net effect of such a dash could be marginally more warming.

事实上，很有可能在未来数十年，如此带来的净效应会让全球更加温暖。

It took decades for electrical power to become a tradable commodity. Computing seems to be getting there faster.

电力转化为交易商品经过了近二十年的时间，云计算看起来更快。

In other words over the next decades collars business card printing and membership card is still survive, making room for development.

也就是说在今后的几十年里书刊制卡和会员卡制作仍有生存、发展的空间。

As I chew, all of a sudden it occurs to me that I have not heard a rooster crow in a few decades.

啃着啃着，突然想起已经好几十年没有听过鸡叫了。

The payoffs for exchange and assistance programs is often measured in decades, not weeks or months.

交流与援助项目的回报通常以数十年为单位，而不是几星期或几个月。

The internet's casual destruction of the value chains by which newspapers have made money for decades seems to puzzle and infuriate him.

互联网对报纸几十年来赖以生存的价值链的随意破坏似乎使他困惑和愤怒。

MINTIMER SHAIMIEV has ruled Tatarstan, a large Muslim republic in the heart of Russia, for two decades with a soft voice and a tight fist.

鞑靼斯坦是俄罗斯中部一个幅员辽阔的穆斯林共和国，明季梅尔•沙伊米耶夫用外柔内刚的方式统治这里已有20年了。

Think tanks too have grown, as challenges nobody thought of a few decades ago now bear down on us.

随着几十年前不曾料到的各种挑战的出现，各种智库也应运而生。

Climate change is the climate factor for several decades or longer period of time the long-term results of any systemic changes.

气候变化是气候要素在连续几十年或者更长的时间的长期统计结果的任何系统性变化。

Last year, when an official promotional video for the Wall was released, it looked as if it could have been made three decades ago.

去年，绿色长城计划发布了一段官方宣传视频，看上去好像该项目三十年前就应该发起一样。

Some of it takes a form Americans are used to: the rich receive a much larger share of the national income than they did a few decades ago.

这是美国当年也经历过的：现在的富裕阶层相比几十年前占有的国民收入比重要大得多。

Thus, over the course of a few decades, the concentration of the gas in the atmosphere will return to pre-industrial levels.

因此，经过几十年的时间，大气中温室气体的浓度将能减低到工业革命之前的水平。