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He was killed a few days ago in a skiing accident...
几天前他在一场滑雪事故中丧生。
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The meeting is the first since the war began 14 years ago...
这是自14年前爆发战争以来的第一次会晤。
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Harry's daughter is dead. She died long ago.
哈里的女儿已不在人世，很久以前就死了。
You only use ago when you are talking about a period of time measured back from the present. If you are talking about a period measured back from some earlier time, you use before or previously. He had died a month before... She had rented the flat some fourteen months previously. You use for to say how long a period lasts in the past, present, or future, or how much time passes without something happening. She slept for eight hours... He will be away for three weeks... I hadn't seen him for four years. You use since to say when a period of time started. She has been with the group since it began. ...the first civilian president since the coup 17 years ago. You also use since to refer to the last time that something happened, or to how much time passes without something happening. She hadn't eaten since breakfast... It was a long time since she had been to church.
ago仅用于谈及现在某个时间以前的时间。如果谈论过去某时间之前的时间，则用before或previously：He had died a month before（他一个月之前就死了），She had rented the flat some fourteen months previously（她大约14个月前租下了该公寓）。for用于表示过去、现在或将来持续的某段时间，或表示某事多长时间没有发生：She slept for eight hours (她睡了8个小时），He will be away for three weeks（他将离开3个星期），I hadn't seen him for four years (我有4年没见过他了）。表示某段时间开始用since：She has been with the group since it began（该集团创立之初她就在那儿工作），the first civilian president since the coup 17 years ago（自17年前发生政变以来的第一任平民总统）。since也可表示某事最后一次发生的时间或某事多长时间没有发生：She hadn't eaten since breakfast（她早饭后就一直没吃过东西），It was a long time since she had been to church（她已经有很长时间没去教堂了）。
- Adjective
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1. gone by; or in the past;
- "two years ago"
- "`agone' is an archaic word for `ago'"
- synonym： agone
- Adverb
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1. in the past;
- "long ago"
- "sixty years ago my grandfather came to the U.S."
- 1. "The Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing", written more than 2,000 years ago, was the earliest book on materia medica in the world. Recorded in the book are over 300 kinds of animals, plants, and minerals used for medication.
- 中国的《神农本草经》是世界上最古的本草书。 写于2，000多年前， 记载了300多种动植矿物。
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- 2. A century ago, eastern Germany was an agricultural hinterland.
- 一个世纪前，德国东部是个农业的内陆地区。
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- 3. A certain number of years ago, this place was still a little fishing village.
- 若干年前，这里还是一个小渔村。
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- 4. A generation ago genetic codes were certainly unknown.
- 遗传密码在上一代确实很少有人知道。
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- 5. A hundred years ago people scoffed at the idea.
- 一百年前人们曾嘲笑过这种想法。
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- 6. A short while ago, my sister helped me to carry one of my old bookcases up the stairs.
- 片刻之前，我妹妹帮我把我的一个旧书柜抬上了楼。
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- 7. A year ago he had a blood clot removed from his brain.
- 他脑内的血块一年前被取出了。
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- 8. Airplanes, good roads, and telephones make intercourse with different parts of the country far easier than it was 50 years ago.
- 飞机，良好的道路和电话使国内各地的交通较五十年前远为便利。
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- 9. All this happened years ago; he's lived it down by now.
- 这一切是好多年以前的事，人们现在已经原谅他了。
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- 10. As it happened so many years ago, I don't remember the details.
- 因为年岁久远，当时的具体情况已记不清了。
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- 11. As long ago as the fourteenth century,an Englishman,Sir John Hawkood, made the remarkable discovery that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.
- 早在14世纪，一位名叫约翰·霍克伍德爵士的英国人，就有过非凡的发现：人们宁肯支付大笔金钱也不肯把自己毕生的事业让暴徒毁掉。
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- 12. Boxing matches were very popular in England two hundred years ago.
- 两百年前拳击比赛在英国就很盛行。
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- 13. Centuries ago,this deserted place was a flourishing town,but a tornado is said to have wiped it out.
- 几个世纪前，这片荒芜的地方曾是一座繁荣的小镇，可据说一场龙卷风扫平了它。
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- 14. China was the first country in the world to cultivate silkworms and develop silk weaving. More than 3,000 years ago, sericulture and silk weaving were already significantly developed.
- 中国是世界上最早发明养蚕和丝织的国家；早在3，000多年以前，蚕桑、丝织已相当发达。
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- 15. Facer was sacked five days ago.
- 费塞五天前被解雇了。
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- 16. Few Englishmen wear frock coats now.They went out years ago.
- 现在，英国人很少穿大礼服了，大礼服在多年以前就不时兴了。
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- 17. Fifty years ago, twenty cents were an excessive price for a pound of sugar.
- 50年前， 20美分买一磅白糖是个过高的价格。
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- 18. Five months ago she was acquitted on a shoplifting charge.
- 五个月前她被宣判未犯入店行窃罪。
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- 19. Food rationing was abolished in that country long ago.
- 那个国家早就取消了粮食配给制。
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- 20. Had it not been for his family, He'd have gone away long ago.
- 要是没有家眷拖累，他早就远走高飞了。
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