很久以前

He had worn all his rust off long ago, but nothing would file his spiky head down.

他身上的铁锈很久以前就掉光了，一头铁蒺藜却依然如故。

"But that was a long time ago," Mrs Stevenson said.

"但那是很久以前的事了，"史蒂文森夫人说。

But that was a long time ago,"Mrs. Stevenson said,"You should use more modern examples.""

但是那是很久以前，"夫人斯蒂文森说："你应该用更现代的例子。""

Long ago, people in Sweden thought the summer solstice was a time of magic.

很久以前，瑞典人认为夏至是个神奇的日子。

Once upon a time ago, in Thebes i am king, Oedipus the king.

很久以前，我俄狄浦斯是忒拜的国王。

You know, there was this one guy a long time ago.

你知道，很久以前就有这么个人。。。

I think they'd been in the library a long time.

我觉得他们很久以前就在图书馆里了。

The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard.

是很久以前读过的一本书，不知道为什么最近总是在脑海里浮现。

"My child," he said,"Jesus paid your bill a long time ago."

他说："孩子，耶稣在很久以前就为你付了账。"

The writing of a dictionary, therefore, is not a task of setting up authoritative statements about the "true meanings" of words, but a task of recording, to the best of one's ability, what various words have meant to authors in the distant or immediate past.

因此，编写一部词典并不是这样一种工作：编者以权威的身份给所有的单词都规定出一些所谓的"真正的词义"；编写词典是一种记录工作，编者要尽自己的最大努力记录下在很久以前或在最近刚出版的著作中，各种不同的的单词所具有的意义。

I can not make it blossom and suits me

我不能让树为我开花

When temperatures are above approximately 80 °C discolouration of the raceways or rolling elements is a frequent feature.

当温度高于 80 °C 左右时，滚道或滚动元件褪色是很常见的特征。