很久以前

It talks about a particular moment in the history of the world, not about an indeterminate long ago.

它指向世界历史上一个确切的时刻，而不是笼统的「很久以前」。

Now She remembered looking at her son on that long ago day and seeing his freckled face as they sat across each other in the old inglenook at one side of the sunny kitchen.

脑海里浮现出一幅很久以前的记忆：充满阳光的厨房离，他们对坐在壁炉前的一对旧椅子上，明媚的阳光在乔的脸上投下了点点的斑影，她那么欣赏地看着儿子。

Long ago in the Iron Age a shadow loomed over a lonely village.

在很久以前的铁器时代一个阴笼罩的偏僻村庄里。

This sincerity, visible, palpable, irrefragable, evident from the very grief that it caused him, rendered inquiries useless, and conferred authority on all that that man had said.

他心里开始有一种不知什么样的神秘的要重新做人的要求；而且，根据一切现象来看，在很久以前良心上的不安就已支配着这个人。

He thought, I am lying on what must be my deathbed, then said, Have faithful Johannes come to me.

很久以前，有个老国王生了重病，当他意识到自己剩下的时间已经不多。。。

While others say that it began long before with the Hebrew Kabbala .

但其他专家则称这来源于很久以前希伯来人的喀巴拉哲学。

A long time ago in a world far far away lived the Kamikaze tribesmen. Their aim was to kill and colonize.

很久以前在世界的偏远地带居住着凶悍的原住民，他们的目标是杀戮和开拓殖民。

It wasn't so long ago that Glenn Hoddle and Kevin Keegan were managing England without having gained any qualifications.

这不是很久以前，霍德尔和凯文-基冈都没有得到管理英国的任何资格。

The name of that old flame who kissed you in Kew Gardens way back when is on the tip of your tongue. Your memory is atrocious.

很久以前在基尤花园吻你的旧情人的名字到了嘴边却说不上来，你的记忆力糟透了。

The golden age of knighthood was a long time ago.

骑士精神的黄金时代乃是很久以前的事了。

I didn't watch TV last night, because it .

昨晚我没有看电视，因为电视机坏了。

Since this year, in a lot of villages of Beijing, TV of elevator liquid crystal was removed.

今年以来，在北京的很多小区里，电梯液晶电视被撤了下来。