What the outcome is to have the end of the end of the moment, is only a question of the length of time: months, years, decades.
有了结果的东西终究是要有结束的时刻，只是一个时间长短的问题：几个月、几年、几十年。Testing their abilities, several teams of explorers set out in 1911 to be the first men to stand at the South Pole.
1911年，几支探险队为了验证自己的能力出发去南极洲，希望能成为站在南极极点的先锋。several dozen Boston residents dressed as Indians boarded the ships of the British East India Company and threw the tea into the harbor.
年，几十名波士顿居民化装成印第安人，登上英国东印度公司的船，将茶叶倾入海中。SOME discoveries are so unusual it takes years, decades and sometimes centuries to understand their full significance.
有些科学发现实在是太不同寻常，以致于人们得花几年、几十年甚至是几个世纪，才能完全弄明白其中的意义。They say they were frozen out of such talks for years by the EU, and only in the past year have they been offered a seat.
他们表示，欧盟取缔了他们发表相关言论的权利多年，几年前才被给予一个说话的位置。He'd been condemned to death in absentia on charges relating to a number of bomb attacks and killings over the past three years.
由于过去三年几起炸弹袭击和谋杀事件的指控，他被缺席判决死刑。It was 1979, and the South American country was years away from being recognized for the quality of its wine.
这是1979年，几年后的事情，这个南美国家是其酒的质量认可。Early in 1914 a small group of entrepreneurs met to discuss an exciting discovery: "a new bronze hard enough to cut steel" .
早在1914年，几位企业家相聚一起，讨论一项令人兴奋的发现“一种具有足够硬度的可用以切断钢材的青铜合金”。They want what the Spanish and other residents of the most advanced economies have had for decades, if not centuries.
他们也想拥有西班牙和其他发达经济体几十年，几百年来奢华物质生活。