So the tension between the world's biggest powers is less dangerous today than it was a generation ago.

因此，这两个世界大国间的冲突，远没有上个世纪那么危险。

I made $22,500 a year — and this was 2005, not a generation ago.

我一年挣 22,500 美元，那是在 2005 年，而不是一代人以前。

How have the skills required for daily life changed since a generation ago?

自一代人以来，我们日常生活所需的技能发生了怎样的变化？

Have the way people celebrate these days changed compared to a generation ago?

与上一代人相比，现在人们的庆祝方式有变化吗？

He says that today's professionals face issues that we never really had a generation ago.

他说，今天的专业人士面临着“老一辈人从未遇到过的”窘境。

A generation ago pilots dropped more bombs in Quang Tri province than across all of World War two.

一代人前，飞行员在广川省投下的炸弹比二战期间投下的炸弹还多。

Adjusted for consumers'rising buying power, the typical powerful new car costs less than one a generation ago.

随着消费者购买力的日益增强，一辆动力强劲的新车比上一代人购车时的价格要低。

Now, his last-minute 3-point shot may replace The Shot that Michael Jordan made to defeat the Cavs a generation ago.

他在最后一刻投入的3分球可以取代近30年前迈克尔·乔丹绝杀骑士队的那一投。

A generation ago, I was that 12-year-old child.

SCS：一代人之前，我还是那个12岁的孩子。

Also, people have much larger friendship groups than a generation ago.

此外，人们的友谊团体比上一代人要大得多。

Ethiopian workers are about where China's workers were a generation ago.

埃塞俄比亚工人与上一代中国工人的水平差不多。

Divorce is more common than it was a generation ago.

【than】现在离婚比一代人以前更常见了。

The country’s attitude toward government is harsher than it was a generation ago.

【generation】现在国人对政府的态度比前一代人更加严厉了。

Russia is socially liberal on adultery, abortion and divorce, but attitudes to homosexuality resemble those in the West of a generation ago.

俄罗斯大众对通奸、流产和离婚都很宽容，而对待同性恋的态度却停留在上一代西方人的水平。

There are books on all sorts of subjects which a generation ago no woman could have touched.

有各种主题的书籍，在一代人之前是没有女人能接触到的。

A generation ago, Barcelona's waterfront was an industrial wasteland.

一代人以前， 巴塞罗那的海滨是一片工业荒地。

Still, a handful of farmers remained, eking out a living here until just a generation ago.

尽管如此， 仍有少数农民留了下来， 直到一代人之前还在这里勉强维持生计。

That explains why, although mining died in Britain a generation ago, most of the world's leading mining companies have moved their headquarters to London.

这正解释了为什么尽管在一个世纪前采矿业就已经在英国销声匿迹，但是世界上大多数矿业领军企业还要将它们的总部设在伦敦的原因了。

Until a generation ago, bogs like these, where organic matter is slowly working its way to becoming coal, were harvested to heat homes.

直到一代人以前，像这样的沼泽地，有机物慢慢地变成煤，人们还收割这些沼泽地来为房屋供暖。

He had all those qualities of suavity, joviality, firmness, and personal domination that made possible success in American local politics a generation ago.

他具有温文尔雅、快活、坚定和个人统治的所有品质， 这些品质使上一代人在美国地方政治中取得成功成为可能。