六级More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called preparation for future learning.

十多年前，当时就读于范德比尔特大学的认知科学家约翰·布兰斯福德（John Bransford）和丹尼尔·施瓦茨（Daniel Schwartz）发现，年轻人区别于儿童的不是保留事实或将先前知识应用于新环境的能力，而是他们称之为未来学习准备的素质。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation b

十多年前，范德比尔特大学的认知科学家约翰·布兰斯福德（John Bransford）和丹尼尔·施瓦茨（Daniel Schwartz）发现，年轻人区别于儿童的不是保留事实或将先验知识应用于新情况的能力

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of Friends, a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

近十年前，有人预测，《老友记》是一部颇受欢迎的情景喜剧，只要轻敲遥控器，观众很快就能买到詹妮弗·安妮斯顿的毛衣。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of "Friends", a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

近十年前，有人预测，流行情景喜剧《老友记》的观众只需轻敲遥控器，很快就能买到詹妮弗·安妮斯顿的毛衣。

2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级Just over a decade into the 21st century, women's progress can be celebrated across a range of fields

21世纪刚刚过去十年，妇女的进步可以在多个领域得到庆祝

2013年12月阅读原文

六级Interactive television advertising has been under debate for the last decade or so.

互动电视广告在过去十年左右一直处于争论之中。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级When I re-entered the full-time workforce a few years ago after a decade of solitary self-employment, there was one thing I was looking forward to the most: the opportunity to have work friends once again.

几年前，在经历了十年的单独自营职业后，当我重新进入全职工作岗位时，有一件事是我最期待的：有机会再次结交工作上的朋友。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

考研Besides the ninety or so learned ministers who came to Massachusetts church in the decade after 1629,There were political leaders like John Winthrop, an educated gentleman, lawyer, and official of the Crown before he journeyed to Boston.

1629年后的十年里，除了来到马萨诸塞州教堂的90多位博学的牧师外，还有像约翰·温斯洛普这样的政治领袖，他是一位受过教育的绅士、律师，也是波士顿前的官方官员。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研Besides the ninety or so learned ministers who came to Massachusetts church in the decade after 1629, there were political leaders like John Winthrop, an educated gentleman, lawyer, and official of the Crown before he journeyed to Boston.

1629年后的十年里，除了来到马萨诸塞州教堂的90多位博学的牧师外，还有像约翰·温斯洛普这样的政治领袖，他是一位受过教育的绅士、律师，也是波士顿前的官方官员。

2009年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级The divorce rate rose again during the rest of the decade as the recovery took hold

在接下来的十年里，随着经济复苏，离婚率再次上升

2012年6月阅读原文

考研The food industry will be alarmed that such senior doctors back such radical moves, especially the call to use some of the tough tactics that have been deployed against smoking over the last decade.

这些资深医生支持这些激进的举措，特别是呼吁使用过去十年来针对吸烟采取的一些强硬策略，食品行业将对此感到震惊。

2011年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Ellen Marram quit as chief of Tropicana a decade age, saying she wanted to be a CEO.

埃伦·马拉姆十年前辞去了Tropicana首席执行官的职务，说她想成为一名首席执行官。

2011年考研阅读原文

四级That's about 10 seconds more than the industry average — and a lot slower than a decade ago, according to the study, which was commissioned by QSR, an industry trade publication.

这项由行业贸易出版物QSR委托开展的研究表明，这比行业平均水平高出约10秒，比十年前慢了很多。

2018年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

六级A decade ago, this island's ecosystem was in chaos.

十年前，这个岛屿的生态系统处于混乱之中。

2018年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

考研Chances are, your headshots are seen much more often now than a decade or two ago.

很可能，你的头像现在比十年或二十年前更容易被看到。

2016年考研阅读原文

考研Ellen Marram quit as chief of Tropicana a decade ago, saying she wanted to be a CEO.

埃伦·马拉姆十年前辞去了Tropicana首席执行官的职务，说她想成为一名首席执行官。

2011年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Annual fees have risen from ￡1,000 to ￡9,000 in the last decade, but contact time at university has barely risen at all.

年费已从原来的水平提高￡1000到￡在过去的十年里有9000人，但大学里的联系时间几乎没有增加。

2016年12月阅读原文

高考But during the past decade declining rainfall has allowed him to plant highly profitable crops.

但是在过去的十年里，降雨量的减少使他能够种植高利润的作物。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

考研In the last decade or so ,advances in technology have allowed mass-market labels such as Zara ,H&M, and Uniqlo to react to trends more quickly and anticipate demand more precisely.

在过去十年左右的时间里，技术的进步使得Zara、H&M和优衣库等大众市场品牌能够更快地对趋势做出反应，更准确地预测需求。

2013年考研阅读原文

四级Although frozen dinners were invented in the '40s, their popularity didn't boom until televisions became popular a decade or so later.

虽然冷冻晚餐是在40年代发明的，但直到十年左右电视开始流行，冷冻晚餐才大受欢迎。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级Although frozen dinners were invented in the 40s, their popularity didn't boom until televisions became popular a decade or so later.

虽然冷冻晚餐是在40年代发明的，但直到十年左右电视开始流行，冷冻晚餐才大受欢迎。

2015年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

考研Over the past decade, many companies had perfected the art of creating automatic behaviors — habits — among consumers.

在过去的十年中，许多公司已经完善了在消费者中创造自动行为——习惯——的艺术。

2010年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级On the other side are parents like Mike jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade,who said Aderhold's reforms would amount to a "dumbing down,"of his children's education.

另一方是像迈克·贾这样的家长，他是过去十年中搬到该区的数千名亚裔美国人专业人士之一，他说阿德霍尔德的改革将相当于他的孩子教育的“减速”。

2018年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

高考A decade of data breaches (数据侵入) of personal information has led to a situation where scammers can easily learn your mother's name, and far more.

十年的数据泄露(数据侵入) 对个人信息的保密使得骗子很容易知道你母亲的名字，甚至更多。

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级In the past decade, even as income inequality has grown, some of the socioeconomic differences in parenting, like reading to children and going to libraries, have narrowed.

在过去十年中，即使收入不平等有所加剧，但育儿方面的一些社会经济差异，如给孩子读书和去图书馆，已经缩小。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级Annual fees have risen from £1,000 to £9,000 in the last decade, but contact time at university has barely risen at all.

在过去十年中，年费从1000英镑增加到9000英镑，但在大学的联系时间几乎没有增加。

2016年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

考研In the last decade or so, advances in technology have allowed mass-market labels such as Zara, H&M, and Uniqlo to react to trends more quickly and anticipate demand more precisely.

在过去十年左右的时间里，技术的进步使得Zara、H&M和优衣库等大众市场品牌能够更快地对趋势做出反应，更准确地预测需求。

2013年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级The big questions are which, if any, of the large traditional retailers will still be on the scene in a decade or two because they have successfully reinvented themselves, which new players will operate busy stores on Main Streets and maybe even in shoppi

最大的问题是，如果有的话，十年或二十年后哪些大型传统零售商仍将出现，因为他们已经成功地改造了自己，哪些新的零售商将在主要街道甚至shoppi经营繁忙的商店

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级They typically appear about once in a decade.

它们通常每十年出现一次。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

考研At puberty, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.

然而，在青春期，大脑会关闭一半的能力，只保留那些在生命最初十年左右似乎最有价值的思维模式。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研So, at the end of a decade of thesis-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.

因此，在十年的论文写作结束后，许多人文学科的学生离开这个行业去做一些他们没有接受过培训的事情。

2011年考研阅读原文

六级By the end of the decade, it's expected to be worth over $50 billion and generate 160 gigawatt-hours, enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology.

到本世纪末，它的价值预计将超过500亿美元，发电量将达到1600亿瓦时，足以吸引大公司的注意，否则它们可能不会对这项绝对平庸的技术感兴趣。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级By the end of the decade, it's expected to be worth over $50 billion and generate 160 gigawatt-hours, enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology.

到本世纪末，它的价值预计将超过500亿美元，发电量将达到1600亿瓦时，足以吸引大公司的注意，否则它们可能不会对这项绝对平庸的技术感兴趣。

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

四级The center of American automobile innovation has in the past decade moved 2, 000 miles away.

美国汽车创新中心在过去十年中已经迁移了2000英里。

2019年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

四级A new batch of young women—members of the so-called millennial (千禧的) generation—has been entering the workforce for the past decade.

所谓“千禧一代”的新一批年轻女性成员(千禧的) 在过去的十年里，这一代人已经进入了劳动力市场。

2018年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

考研During the decade before the economic crisis, spending on legal services in America grew twice as fast as inflation.

在经济危机前的十年间，美国法律服务支出的增长速度是通货膨胀的两倍。

2014年考研阅读原文

六级Whereas now, as I near the end of my fourth decade, I realize work can be fully functional and entirely fulfilling without needing to be best mates with the people sitting next to you.

而现在，当我快四十岁的时候，我意识到工作可以完全发挥作用，完全满足，而不需要与坐在你旁边的人成为最好的伴侣。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

高考While the decline over the past decade is steep for teen readers, some data in the report shows that reading remains a big part of many children's lives.

虽然过去十年来青少年读者数量急剧下降，但报告中的一些数据显示，阅读仍然是许多儿童生活的重要组成部分。

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级This proposal could save Medicare more than $100 billion over the next decade.

这项提议可以在未来十年为医疗保险节省1000多亿美元。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级It estimated that step would save hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade.

据估计，这一步骤将在未来十年节省数千亿美元。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级For more than a decade, FedEx has supported the American Red Cross in its effort to get emergency supplies to areas affected by disasters, both domestically and internationally.

十多年来，联邦快递一直支持美国红十字会向国内外受灾地区提供紧急物资。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

考研For the rest of the decade she apparently managed both roles without attracting much criticism.

在这十年剩下的时间里，她显然在没有引起太多批评的情况下同时扮演了这两个角色。

2011年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研At the end of adolescence, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.

然而，在青春期结束时，大脑会关闭一半的能力，只保留那些在生命最初十年左右似乎最有价值的思维模式。

2009年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods Amazon.

在过去的十年中，亚马逊已经为所谓的商业方法授予了数千项专利。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods.

在过去的十年中，数千项专利被授予所谓的商业方法。

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Just over a decade into the 21st century, women's progress can be celebrated across a range of fields.

21世纪刚刚过去十年，妇女的进步可以在多个领域得到庆祝。

2013年12月阅读原文

考研Over the past decade, the focus has been on climate change——how the warming of the Earth from greenhouse gases is leading to conditions that worsen fires.

在过去十年中，人们关注的焦点一直是气候变化——温室气体导致地球变暖如何导致火灾恶化。

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级During this decade new forms of entertainment, commerce, research, and communication became commonplace in the U.S.

在这十年中，新形式的娱乐、商业、研究和交流在美国变得司空见惯。

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

六级By the end of the decade, both visions had yielded concrete results and transformed American society.

到本世纪末，这两个愿景都取得了具体成果，改变了美国社会。

2013年12月阅读原文

四级Size isn't everything, but it does matter, and the past decade has seen a noticeable counter trend toward smaller schools.

规模不是一切，但它确实很重要，在过去十年中，规模较小的学校出现了明显的反趋势。

2012年6月阅读原文

高考It will stay for a decade.

它将持续十年。

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

四级What it does mean is that the book business will go through a transformation in the next decade or so more profound than any it has seen since Gutenberg introduced printing from moveable type in the 1450s.

这意味着图书业将在未来十年经历一场变革，这场变革将比古腾堡在14世纪50年代从活字印刷引入印刷业以来所经历的任何变革都更加深刻。

2014年6月阅读原文

四级And that is what put Mr Jobs on the right side of history, as technological innovation （创新）has moved into consumer electronics over the past decade.

而这正是让乔布斯先生站在历史正确一边的原因，因为技术创新(创新）在过去的十年里，它已经进入了消费电子领域。

2012年12月阅读原文

四级The divorce rate rose again during the rest of the decade as the recovery took hold.

随着经济复苏，离婚率在这十年的剩余时间里再次上升。

2012年6月阅读原文

四级Size isn't everything, but it does matter, and the past decade has seen a noticeable counter trend toward smaller schools

规模不是一切，但它确实很重要，在过去的十年中，规模较小的学校出现了明显的反趋势

2012年6月阅读原文

四级It has gone up 25% in the past decade.

在过去的十年里，它上涨了25%。

2010年6月听力原文

四级life expectancy is increasing at two years for every decade.

预期寿命每十年增加两岁。

2019年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

四级On the other side are parents like Mike Jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade.

另一边是迈克·贾（Mike Jia）这样的父母，他是过去十年中搬到该地区的数千名亚裔美国人专业人士之一。

2018年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级This is pushing sales of new microwaves which are expected to reach 135 million annually in the EU by the end of the decade.

这推动了新微波炉的销售，预计到本世纪末，新微波炉在欧盟的年销售额将达到1.35亿台。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级More than a decade later, there was no sign of the ecosystem re-building itself.

十多年后，生态系统没有自我重建的迹象。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Another decade or two and it could go mainstream.

再过十年或二十年，它可能会成为主流。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级When viewed at the national level, the policy interventions of the past decade have helped transform the performance of UK universities.

从国家层面来看，过去十年的政策干预有助于改变英国大学的表现。

2011年12月阅读原文

六级Vladimir Mironov has been working for a decade to grow meat.

弗拉基米尔·米罗诺夫十年来一直致力于种肉。

2012年6月听力原文

考研little more than a decade later, the share of imports was 25.8 percent.

十多年后，进口占比为25.8%。

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级In 1961, when President Kennedy declared that America would send a man to the moon by the decade's end, those words, too, had a dreamlike quality.

1961年，当肯尼迪总统宣布美国将在本世纪末将一个人送上月球时，这些话也具有梦幻般的性质。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级When Stephen Covey, founder and director of the Leadership Institute, explored leadership styles in the past decade, he focused on the habits of a great number of highly effective individuals.

在过去的十年里，领导力研究所的创始人兼主任斯蒂芬·科维（Stephen Covey）在探索领导力风格时，重点关注了大量高效个人的习惯。

2011年12月阅读原文

六级Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness For at least the last decade, the happiness craze has been building.

意义比幸福更健康

2014年12月大学英语六级考试真题（一）

六级More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called “preparation for future learning.

十多年前，范德比尔特大学的认知科学家约翰·布兰斯福德和丹尼尔·施瓦茨发现，年轻人与儿童的区别不是保留事实或将先前知识应用于新情况的能力，而是他们所说的“为未来学习做准备”的素质。

2015年12月大学英语六级考试真题（三）

六级JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon recently expressed his willingness to do so, noting that banks and merchants have spent the past decade suing each other over interchange fees —the percentage of the transaction price they keep —rather than deal with the growing hacking problem.

摩根大通（JPMorgan Chase）首席执行官杰米·戴蒙（Jamie Dimon）最近表示愿意这样做，他指出，在过去十年里，银行和商家一直在就交换费（占交易价格的百分比）问题相互起诉，而不是处理日益严重的黑客问题。

2015年6月大学英语六级考试真题（三）

六级From data collected around 1991 by the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, they worked out that people who had quit in the previous decade were much more likely to be overweight than smokers and people who had never smoked .

根据美国国家健康和营养检查调查在1991年左右收集的数据，他们发现，在前十年戒烟的人比吸烟者和从未吸烟的人更容易超重。

2008年12月英语六级真题

六级The South Florida nesting population, the largest, has declined by 50% in the last decade, according to Elizabeth Griffin, a marine biologist with the environmental group Oceana.

环境组织Oceana的海洋生物学家伊丽莎白·格里芬表示，在过去十年中，南佛罗里达州最大的筑巢种群减少了50%。

2009年6月英语六级真题

六级Patients older than 85, who need chronic care most, will rise by 50% this decade.

85岁以上最需要慢性病治疗的患者在本十年内将增加50%。

2009年12月英语六级真题

四级But he said that with a modest increase in the present< sums, devoted by the EEC to this work it was possible that the breakthrough could be achieved by the end of the next decade.

但他表示，只要欧洲经济共同体目前用于这项工作的资金略有增加，就有可能在下一个十年结束前实现这一突破。

1991年1月英语四级真题

四级A decade ago, adapting the infrared (红外线) scanning technology developed for military purposes and other satellites, physicist Stephen Paley came up with a quick way to take the temperature of crops to determine which ones are under stress.

十年前，适应红外(红外线) 物理学家Stephen Paley利用为军事目的和其他卫星开发的扫描技术，想出了一种快速测量作物温度的方法，以确定哪些作物处于压力之下。

1997年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Ray Jackson, who recently retired from the Department of Agriculture, thinks remote infrared crop scanning could be adopted by the end of the decade.

最近从农业部退休的雷·杰克逊认为，到本世纪末，远程红外作物扫描可能会被采用。

1997年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级And consumers would wait up to a decade to gain any benefits, because drilling could begin only after much bargaining over leases, environmental permits and regulatory review.

消费者将等待长达十年的时间才能获得任何好处，因为只有在就租约、环境许可和监管审查进行多次谈判后，才能开始钻探。

2005年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Size isn’t everything, but it does matter, and the past decade has seen a noticeable countertrend toward smaller schools.

规模并不是一切，但它确实很重要，在过去的十年里，向小型学校倾斜的趋势明显相反。

2012年6月英语四级考试真题

四级And that is what put Mr Jobs on the right side of history, as technological innovation (创新)has moved into consumer electronics over the past decade.

这正是乔布斯站在历史正确一边的原因，即技术创新(创新)在过去的十年里，已经进军消费电子领域。

2012年12月大学英语四级真题（2）

四级This obviously isn’t sustainable in the long run, and it’s going to put a huge drag on their spending power even after they reach their peak earning years, because they’ll still be paying interest on that bottle of orange juice or box of spaghetti (意式面条) they bought a decade earlier.

从长远来看，这显然是不可持续的，即使在他们达到收入高峰后，这也会极大地拖累他们的消费能力，因为他们仍将为那瓶橙汁或一盒意大利面支付利息(意式面条) 他们早在十年前就购买了。

2013年12月大学英语四级考试真题(第3套)

四级The study relied on people remembering what they had done over each decade of their lives, so it’s not entirely reliable.

这项研究依赖于人们记住他们一生中每十年所做的事情，所以它并不完全可靠。

2015年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第1套)

四级It’s true that the number of men who have left work to do their thing as full-time parents has doubled in a decade, but ifs still very small： only 0.

诚然，十年来，离开工作岗位做全职父母的男性人数翻了一番，但如果仍然很小的话：只有0人。

2015年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套)

四级On the other side are parents like Mike Jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade, who said Aderhold's reforms would amount to a "dumbing down" of his children's education.

另一方面是像Mike Jia这样的家长，他是过去十年里搬到该地区的数千名亚裔美国专业人士之一，他说Aderhold的改革将相当于“降低”他孩子的教育水平。

2018年6月大学英语四级真题（第3套)

四级For more than a decade, FedEx has supported the American Red Cross m its effort to get emergency supplies to areas affected by disasters, both domestically and internationally.

十多年来，联邦快递一直支持美国红十字会向国内外受灾地区提供紧急物资。

2019年12月大学英语四级真题（第1套）

四级Although frozen dinners were invented in the ’40s, their popularity didn’t boom until televisions became popular a decade or so later.

虽然冷冻晚餐是在40年代发明的，但直到大约十年后电视流行起来，它们才流行起来。

2020年7月大学英语四级真题

四级By the end of the next decade both words were used more frequently, and climate change was used nearly twice as often as global warming.

到下一个十年末，这两个词的使用频率都提高了，气候变化的使用频率几乎是全球变暖的两倍。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第3套）

考研In primitive societies adolescence is frequently a relatively short period of time, while in industrial societies with patterns of prolonged education coupled with laws against child labor, the period of adolescence is much longer and may include most of the second decade of one’s life.

在原始社会，青春期通常是一段相对较短的时间，而在教育模式长期化、法律禁止童工的工业社会，青春期要长得多，可能包括人生第二个十年的大部分时间。

1991年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研“I have great confidence that by the end of the decade we’ll know in vast detail how cancer cells arise,” says microbiologist Robert Weinberg, an expert on cancer.

癌症专家、微生物学家罗伯特·温伯格表示：“我非常有信心，到本世纪末，我们将非常详细地了解癌症细胞是如何产生的。”。

1994年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Without forgetting, adaptive ability would suffer; for example, learned behaviour that might have been correct a decade ago may no longer be.

不忘，适应能力会受到影响；例如，十年前可能正确的习得行为可能不再正确。

1995年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研That is somewhat faster than the average during the previous decade.

这比前十年的平均水平要快一些。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Altogether, the US population rose in the 1970s by 23.2 million people -- numerically the third-largest growth ever recorded in a single decade.

总的来说，美国人口在20世纪70年代增加了2320万，这是有史以来单十年内第三大增长。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Three sun-belt states -- Florida, Texas and California -- together had nearly 10 million more people in 1980 than a decade earlier.

佛罗里达州、得克萨斯州和加利福尼亚州这三个太阳带州在1980年的人口总数比十年前增加了近1000万。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研In that decade, however, large numbers also migrated from California, mostly to other parts of the West.

然而，在那十年里，大量移民也从加利福尼亚州迁移到了西部其他地区。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Odd though it sounds, cosmic inflation is a scientifically plausible consequence of some respected ideas in elementary particle physics, and many astrophysicists have been convinced for the better part of a decade that it is true.

尽管听起来很奇怪，但宇宙膨胀是基本粒子物理学中一些受人尊敬的想法在科学上合理的结果，许多天体物理学家在十年的大部分时间里都确信这是真的。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研In the past decade, the Japanese divorce rate, while still well below that of the United States, has increased by more than 50 percent, and suicides have increased by nearly one-quarter.

在过去的十年里，日本的离婚率虽然仍远低于美国，但已经上升了50%以上，自杀率上升了近四分之一。

2000年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Summer homes, European travel, BMWs—the locations, place names and name brands may change, but such items do not seem less in demand today than a decade or two years ago.

避暑别墅、欧洲旅行、宝马——地点、地名和品牌可能会发生变化，但如今对此类商品的需求似乎并不比一二十年前少。

2000年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研For example, in the early industrialized countries of Europe the process of industrialization—with all the far-reaching changes in social patterns that followed—was spread over nearly a century, whereas nowadays a developing nation may undergo the same process in a decade or so.

例如，在欧洲早期工业化国家，工业化进程——以及随之而来的社会模式的所有深远变化——持续了近一个世纪，而如今一个发展中国家可能在十年左右的时间内经历同样的进程。

2000年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet will he netted together.

在未来的十年或二十年内，地球上有一二亿人将被他集中起来。

2001年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Only a decade earlier, such an act would have required legislative approval in Virginia.

就在十年前，这样的法案还需要弗吉尼亚州的立法批准。

2008年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研Besides the ninety or so learned ministers who came to Massachusetts churches in the decade after 1629, there were political leaders like John Winthrop, an educated gentleman, lawyer, and official of the Crown before he journeyed to Boston.

除了1629年后的十年里来到马萨诸塞州教堂的大约90位学识渊博的牧师之外，还有像约翰·温斯罗普这样的政治领袖，他是一位受过教育的绅士、律师，在前往波士顿之前是王室的官员。

2009年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题