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Terrie Moffitt's paper on "The link Between Childhood Self-control and Adult Status Decades Later" is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

特里·莫菲特关于“几十年后儿童自我控制与成人地位之间的联系”的论文发表在《美国国家科学院院刊》上。

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

四级Decades of research have shown that in order to acquire skills and real knowledge in school, kids need to want to learn.

几十年的研究表明，为了在学校获得技能和真正的知识，孩子们需要学习。

2015年12月阅读原文

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More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining.

一个多世纪过去了，探险家们争先恐后地将国旗插在世界的最底层。在未来的几十年里，这块大陆应该作为一个科学保护区受到保护，免受军事活动和采矿等入侵。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Kodak's decision to file for bankruptcy（破产）protection is a sad, though not unexpected, turning point for a leading American corporation that pioneered consumer photography and dominated the film market for decades, but ultimately failed to adapt to the digital revolution.

柯达申请破产的决定(破产）对于一家领先的美国公司来说，保护是一个悲伤但并非意外的转折点。这家公司开创了消费摄影并主宰了电影市场几十年，但最终未能适应数字革命。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级Each group over the coming decades will need to address different issues surrounding food production, storage and transportation, as well as consumer expectations, if we are to continue to feed all our people.

如果我们要继续养活我们所有的人民，在未来几十年中，每个群体都需要解决围绕食品生产、储存和运输以及消费者期望的不同问题。

2013年12月阅读原文

高考According to the Overseas Development Institute Odi, however, just 12% of disaster-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards.

然而，根据海外发展研究所Odi的数据，在过去二十年中，只有12%的救灾资金用于提前降低风险，而不是事后恢复和重建。

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级But advances in technology might make Antarctica a lot more accessible three decades from now.

但技术的进步可能会让30年后的南极洲变得更加容易接近。

2016年12月阅读原文

考研But since such students are most likely to advance economically if they succeed in higher education, colleges and universities have pushed for decades to recruit more of them.

但是，由于这些学生如果在高等教育中取得成功，最有可能在经济上取得进步，因此几十年来，学院和大学一直在努力招收更多的学生。

2015年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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For decades, many downtown cores in small to mid-sized cities were abandoned after work hours by workers who lived in the suburbs.

几十年来，许多中小型城市的市中心在下班后被居住在郊区的工人遗弃。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级Part of the problem is that almost two decades after Amazon filed the one-click patent, the online retail shopping and buying experience is filled with frictions.

部分问题在于，在亚马逊申请一键式专利近20年后，在线零售购物和购买体验充满了摩擦。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

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After all, four decades of evidence has now shown that corporations in Europe as well as the US are evading the meritocratic hiring and promotion of women to top position—no matter how much "soft pressure" is put upon them.

毕竟，四十年来的证据表明，欧洲和美国的企业都在逃避精英聘用和晋升女性到最高职位，不管她们承受多大的“软压力”。

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研After several decades, the same data were subjected to econometric analysis.

几十年后，同样的数据进行了计量经济分析。

2010年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

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

四级The average age of first marriage has risen steadily for decades.

几十年来，平均初婚年龄稳步上升。

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

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What Barth wrote decades ago is even truer today.

巴思几十年前写的东西在今天更加真实。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago, Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, Life Reimagined.

事实上，除了几十年前进行的几项小型试点研究外，几乎没有确凿的证据证明中年危机，芭芭拉·哈格蒂在她的新书《重新想象生活》中写道。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级"In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago," Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, life Reimagined.

“事实上，除了几十年前进行的几项小型试点研究外，几乎没有确凿的证据证明中年危机，”芭芭拉·哈格蒂在她的新书《生活重新想象》中写道。

2017年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

四级A message in a bottle sent out to sea by a New Hampshire man more than five decades ago was found 1500 miles away and has been returned to his daughter.

五十多年前，一位新罕布什尔州男子在1500英里外的一个瓶子里寄出了一条信息，并将其归还给了他的女儿。

2018年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

四级So it may seem rather strange that I have returned to college to finish the degree I left undone some four decades ago.

因此，我回到大学去完成四十年前没有完成的学位，这似乎有点奇怪。

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

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And if you suspected that the workplace had gotten more stressful than it was just a few decades ago, you're right.

如果你怀疑工作场所的压力比几十年前更大，你是对的。

2016年12月阅读原文

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

六级And if you suspected that the workplace had gotten more stressful than it was just a few decades ago, you're right.

如果你怀疑工作场所的压力比几十年前更大，你是对的。

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级nine decades ago, leading economists predicted that technological advances and rising productivity would mean that would be working a 15-hour week.

90年前，主要经济学家预测技术进步和生产率提高将意味着每周工作15小时。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级This is more than twice the level of two decades ago.

这是20年前水平的两倍多。

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研Up until a few decades ago, our visions of the future were largely - though by no means uniformly - glowingly positive.

直到几十年前，我们对未来的憧憬在很大程度上——尽管并非一成不变——都是积极的。

2013年考研阅读原文

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A few decades ago, many people didn't drink water outside of a meal.

几十年前，许多人在饭后不喝水。

2010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 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

考研Up until a few decades ago, our visions of the future were largely -- though by no means uniformly-glowingly positive.

直到几十年前，我们对未来的憧憬在很大程度上都是积极的，尽管并不是一成不变的。

2013年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研When this practice first started decades ago, it was usually limited to freshmen, to give them a second chance to take a class in their first year if they struggled in their transition to college-level courses.

几十年前，这种做法刚开始时，通常仅限于新生，如果他们在向大学课程过渡过程中遇到困难，他们可以在第一年获得第二次上课机会。

2019年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级About 70% of this is consumed by the global agriculture sector, and the level of use will continue to rise over the coming decades

其中约70%由全球农业部门消费，在未来几十年中，消费水平将继续上升

2013年12月阅读原文

四级For the past several decades, it seems there's been a general consensus on how to get ahead in America: Get a college education, find a reliable job, and buy your own home.

在过去的几十年里，人们似乎对如何在美国取得成功达成了普遍共识：接受大学教育，找到可靠的工作，买自己的房子。

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级Apple stands to win as well, hooking more young consumers with decades of technology purchases ahead of them.

苹果公司也将赢得这场胜利，它将吸引更多的年轻消费者，让他们提前购买数十年的技术。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级Traffic has become synonymous with air pollution, and many countries intend to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the next two decades.

交通已经成为空气污染的代名词，许多国家打算在未来二十年内禁止销售新的汽油和柴油汽车。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

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

六级Land Usage: Over the last five decades, improved farming techniques and technologies have helped to significantly increase crop yields along with a 12% expansion of farmed land use

土地利用：在过去五十年中，改进的农业技术和技术有助于显著提高作物产量，同时增加了12%的耕地利用

2013年12月阅读原文

四级The Dutch king has revealed that for more than two decades he has held down a part-time second job alongside his royal duties.

这位荷兰国王透露，二十多年来，他除了履行皇室职责外，还担任着兼职的第二份工作。

2018年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

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

六级As an organization of volunteers, AMSAT was putting "amateur" satellites in orbit decades before the current Cube Sat craze.

作为一个由志愿者组成的组织，AMSAT在当前立方体卫星热出现前几十年就将“业余”卫星送入轨道。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级Employed young men are much less likely to live at home than young men without a job, and employment among young men has fallen significantly in recent decades.

与没有工作的年轻人相比，有工作的年轻人在家生活的可能性要小得多，近几十年来，年轻人的就业率大幅下降。

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）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

六级So we have a great amount of time for leisure than in decades past.

因此，与过去几十年相比，我们有大量的闲暇时间。

2014年6月听力原文

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For more than two decades, starting in the 1960s, the poet Ted Hughes sat on the judging panel of an annual poetry competition for British schoolchildren.

20多年来，从20世纪60年代开始，诗人特德·休斯（Ted Hughes）一直担任英国小学生年度诗歌比赛的评委。

2013年12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

四级Decades ago, Kodak anticipated that digital photography would overtake film — and in fact, Kodak invented the first digital camera in 1975 — but in a fateful decision, the company chose to shelf its new discovery to focus on its traditional film business.

几十年前，柯达预计数码摄影将取代胶片——事实上，柯达在1975年发明了第一台数码相机——但在一个决定性的决定中，该公司选择搁置其新发现，专注于其传统胶片业务。

2013年6月阅读原文

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年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build, as more and more people become prosumers, who produce and consume their own energy on-site?No one knows which – if any – battery technology will ultimately dominate, but one thing remains clear: The future of energy is in how we store it.

随着越来越多的人成为现场生产和消费自己能源的消费者，花了几十年和数十亿美元建成的集中式电网会发生什么？没有人知道哪种（如果有的话）电池技术将最终占据主导地位，但有一点仍然很清楚：能源的未来在于我们如何储存能源。

2016年12月阅读原文

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

四级Laura Chigi, a grandmother at the march, says the local and national governments have failed to do anything about the crowds for decades, because they're only interested in tourism.

参加游行的祖母劳拉·奇吉（Laura Chigi）说，几十年来，地方政府和国家政府都没有对人群采取任何措施，因为他们只对旅游业感兴趣。

2018年6月四级真题（第二套）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

四级Indoor pollution, which includes sources like home heating and cooking, has remained constant over the past several decades despite advances in the area.

室内污染，包括家庭取暖和烹饪等污染源，尽管在这方面取得了进展，但在过去几十年中一直保持不变。

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

四级The food-as-medicine movement has been around for decades, but it's making progress as physicians and medical institutions make food a formal part of treatment, rather than relying solely on medications.

作为药物的食品运动已经存在了几十年，但它正在取得进展，因为医生和医疗机构将食品作为治疗的正式组成部分，而不是仅仅依靠药物。

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

考研Indeed, predictions of such a society have been around for two decades but have not yet come to fruition.

事实上，对这样一个社会的预测已经存在了20年，但尚未实现。

2013年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

高考There are probably decades in which to plan for the arrival of super intelligent machines.

也许有几十年的时间来计划超级智能机器的到来。

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级In a few decades, artificial intelligence (AI) will surpass many of the abilities that we believe make us special.

再过几十年，人工智能（AI）将超越许多我们认为让我们与众不同的能力。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Ni o ( ' , 厄尔尼诺) weather phenomenon in decades.

例如，联合国儿童基金会估计，由于厄尔尼诺现象最严重，非洲约有1100万儿童面临饥饿、疾病和水资源短缺，厄尔尼诺) 几十年来的天气现象。

2017年6月阅读原文

考研But as Cline is the first to note, it took Beaumont decades to perfect her craft; her example can’t be knocked off.

但正如克莱恩第一个注意到的，博蒙特花了几十年的时间来完善她的技艺；她的榜样是不可推卸的。

2013年考研阅读原文

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

考研The average time for holding a stock in both the United States and Britain, he notes, has dropped from seven years to seven months in recent decades.

他指出，近几十年来，美国和英国持有股票的平均时间从七年下降到七个月。

2019年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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

六级That is not surprising: politicians with an eye on the next election will hardly rush to introduce unpopular measures that may not bear fruit for years, perhaps decades.

这并不奇怪：着眼于下一次选举的政客们不会急于推出不受欢迎的措施，这些措施可能在几年甚至几十年内都不会产生成果。

2010年12月阅读原文

四级They weren't looking for cured meats, organic produce or beautiful presentation; they were looking for whatever they could get their hands on, and this prioritisation of quantity over quality prevailed for decades, meaning a generation was brought up with food that couldn't compete with neighbouring France, Italy, Belgium or Spain.

他们不是在寻找腌肉、有机农产品或漂亮的展示；他们在寻找他们能得到的任何东西，这种数量优先于质量的做法盛行了几十年，这意味着一代人的食物无法与邻国法国、意大利、比利时或西班牙竞争。

2011年6月阅读原文

高考Floods have become more damaging in bangladesh in recent decades.

近几十年来，洪水对孟加拉国的破坏性越来越大。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build, as more and more people become "prosumers," who produce and consume their own energy on-site?

随着越来越多的人成为“消费者”，他们在现场生产和消费自己的能源，花了几十年和数十亿美元建成的中央电网会发生什么？

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级Before writing Metamorphosis, Merian spent decades documenting European plants and insects that she published in a series of books.

在写《变形记》之前，梅里安花了几十年时间记录欧洲的植物和昆虫，并在一系列书籍中发表。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

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

考研The commission ignores that for several decades America’s colleges and universities have produced graduates who don’t know the content and character of liberal education and are thus deprived of its benefits.

委员会忽略了几十年来美国的学院和大学培养出的毕业生不了解通识教育的内容和特点，因此被剥夺了通识教育的好处。

2014年考研阅读原文

四级If we give children the best possible start in life now,they will be healthier and more productive for decades to come.

如果我们现在就给孩子们一个最好的开始，他们将在未来几十年更健康、更富有成效。

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

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But over the past few decades a unique class of satellites has been created that fits the bill: CubeSats.

但是在过去的几十年里，一类独特的卫星被创造出来，这类卫星就是立方体卫星。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

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Excessively skinny models have been a point of controversy for decades, and two researchers say a model's body mass should be a workplace health and safety issue.

几十年来，过度瘦削的模特一直是争议的焦点，两位研究人员表示，模特的体重应该是工作场所的健康和安全问题。

2016年12月阅读原文

高考But the textile boom lasted only several decades.

但纺织业的繁荣只持续了几十年。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读C 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

六级More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining

一个多世纪过去了，探险家们争先恐后地将国旗插在世界的最底层。在未来的几十年里，这块大陆应该作为一个科学保护区受到保护，免受军事活动和采矿等入侵

2016年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B