But they were sure their candidate would get as many as forty electoral votes.

但是他们确信，他们的候选人将获得多达40张选举票。

It might be as long as forty hours!

有可能要用40个小时！

The world and our two countries are not the same as forty years ago.

中美两国和世界经不是40年前的样子。

It goes to a single quaking aspen named " Pando" that weighs over 6,000 tonnes — as much as forty blue whales.

这属于一棵名叫 “Pando” 的山杨其，重量逾 6000 吨，和40条蓝鲸一样重。

Taylor was sixty-three years old. He had almost no formal education. He had spent almost forty years in the West as an Indian fighter and commander of small army posts.

泰勒63岁，他几乎没有受过正规教育，他作为对抗印第安人的战士和小型军队驻地指挥官在西部度过了将近四十年的时光。

Francois Arago, as long as forty or fifty years ago, conclusively established the fact that scintillation is the simplest thing in the world, —merely a matter of atmosphere.

弗朗索瓦·阿拉戈 (Francois Arago) 早在四十或五十年前就确定了闪烁是世界上最简单的事物——仅仅是大气的问题。

In those days the railroad rate was not the sacred, immutable thing which it subsequently became, although the argument for equal treatment of shippers existed theoretically just as strongly forty years ago as it does today.

在那些日子里，铁路费率并不是后来变成的神圣不可改变的东西，尽管四十年前在理论上与今天一样强烈存在托运人平等待遇的论点。