online video has always been something for nerds, with quicktime and realplayer in the first years but once youtube was launched 2005 the complete internet landscape changed. and continues to change.

在线视频一直是比较呆板的，最初几年都是依赖quicktime和realplayer, 自youtube在2005年推出来，互联网的景象就彻底改变了，而且现在继续发生变化。

i「m willing to bet that nearly half of you spent the first years of your life in a baby blue bedroom.

我敢打赌你们当中一半以上的人是在蓝色的婴儿房中度过你们人生最初的几个春秋的。

one study found that a college professor」s kids hear an average of 2,150 words per hour in the first years of life.

一项研究表明，在生命的前五年，一个大学教授的孩子平均可以听到2,150个字。

children are playing in ruined sevastopol, first years after the war.

孩子们在塞瓦斯托波尔战后的废墟上玩耍，战后一年。

brain and biological development during the first years of life is highly influenced by an infant’s environment.

在生命最初几年，脑和生理发育深受婴儿环境影响。

i know what i am talking about. in my first years as a translator i did almost everything wrong, and i certainly made plenty of the most elementary mistakes.

我不是开玩笑，在我做翻译的最初几年里我的确犯下很多错误，当然也出过很多最基本的问题。

adjusted for inflation, prices are close to their long-term trend after the bubble years of the 1990s and the first years of the 2000s.

调整通胀后的房价向1990年代泡沫年份之后及2000年代的最初几年之后的长期趋势靠拢。

brain and biological development during the first years of life depends on the quality of stimulation in the infant’s environment—at the level of family, community, and society.

生命最初数年的大脑和生物发育取决于婴儿环境（在家庭、社区以及社会层面）下的激励质量。

i remember my last years of school and my first years at university as happy.

我记得中学时代最后的岁月和大学头几年一样快乐。

during mr. sanford’s first years as governor, said joel sawyer, his former spokesman, he consulted mrs. sanford on policy. 「she attended a few meetings with other officials.」

他的前发言人乔伊尔·叟耶表示，在珊弗先生最初的几年任期中，在政策制定上他必须仰仗珊弗夫人：「她甚至去开了一些工作会议。」

are you sorry not to have been living there to see the first years of the transition, or were those times even harder than the preceding period?

您没有生活在那里看到最初几年的过度时期的生活，感到遗憾吗，或者那些年比以前还要艰难吗？

and whether he regrets the repression and mass imprisonment of gay people, other 「lifestyle dissidents」, and intellectuals who supported his cause but broke with him after his first years in power.

他是否为对同性恋、其他「不同生活方式的异己」，以及曾经支持他事业却他当政后的头几年之后同他决裂的知识分子进行的控制和大规模监禁而道歉，了解这些还是很吸引人的。

inco, which made pots of cash in its first years under brazilian ownership, is paralysed by a strike, now in its tenth month, that shows no sign of ending.

国际镍业公司在从属巴西的第一年就提取了大量现金，其由于罢工而处于瘫痪状态，现在是罢工的第十个月，却没有任何终结的迹象。

what made the first years difficult, and sometimes dramatic, sometimes happy, was the news from albania.

使我头几年感觉有些别扭，有时很戏剧化，有时很开心的事，都是来自阿尔巴尼亚方面的新闻。

nutrition and nurturing during the first years of life are both crucial for life-long health and well-being.

生命最初几年的营养与养育对于人一生的健康和福祉都至关重要。

in the first years of the 20th century, duke peter of oldenburg, a russian aristocrat, built a palace (above) and a hotel in gagra, and put gagra on the map as a holiday destination for the wealthy.

在20世纪的头几年，俄国贵族，奥尔登堡的彼得公爵，在加格拉兴建了一座宫殿（上图）和一个酒店，使得加格拉成为了富人的度假胜地。

steichen spent the first years of the 20th century in paris, pursuing parallel careers as an art photographer and painter.

史泰钦在巴黎度过了20世纪的最初几年，在那里他从事着艺术摄影家和画家的职业。

using data for 2005 and 2006, the first years that included these satellite observations, the team was able to pinpoint the wind patterns and currents that distribute ocean co2.

2005年和2006年是最初实施卫星观测的年份，研究小组利用这两年的数据可以确定分布海洋二氧化碳的风型和洋流流向。

this may be difficult to comprehend during the happy and hazy days of courtship, but it’s true, and it shocks many couples during their first years of marriage.

在幸福的，朦胧的恋爱时期，这可能很难让人理解，但是这是事实，在结婚的前几年，许多夫妇都会感到震惊。

in his first years in office, he anticipated an 「acceleration」 of output based upon the utilization of new technologies largely acquired from western partners.

在他执政的头几年，他希望利用从西方伙伴处购入的大量新技术为俄罗斯的工业生产带来「腾飞」。

no one was much surprised: applications to business schools often rise during the first years of a recession as people seek shelter from the storm.

没有人感到奇怪：为了躲避经济衰退的暴风雨，通常在经济衰退的最初几年内，申请商学院的人数会增加。

mr bush would also like to find a way to ensure that the tax cuts he enacted in his first years in office do not expire entirely, as they are currently scheduled to do, in 2010.

布什总统也希望确保他在第一个任期内通过的减税计划不会立刻全部失效，至少按照目前的法律有效期进程来看，要到2010年才终止。

in the first years i was elected here an honourary justice of the peace.

在最初的几年里我当选为这里的荣誉治安法官。

morning exercises in a kindergarten. sevastopol, first years after the war.

某小学的晨练。战后一年的塞瓦斯托波尔。

their house didn’t intimidate with art or polish; in fact, for many of the first years i knew steve and lo together, dinner was served on the grass, and sometimes consisted of just one vegetable.

他们的家既不艺术，也不优雅，实际上，自从认识乔布斯与劳伦多年以来，晚餐一般会在草地上，有时只有一个蔬菜。