很久以前：指遥远的过去。
belonging to time long gone
同义词： long-ago
of the distant or comparatively distant past
同义词： long since / lang syne
它与long before不同，long before中 before若作副词相当于long ago（很久以前），常与 ..
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很久以前
The house was pulled down long ago.
那栋房子很久以前就被拆掉了。
Once long ago he had considered becoming a state trooper.
很久以前他曾考虑过当一名州警官。
Rationing had put an end to a surfeit of biscuits long ago.
定量供应很久以前就结束了饼干过剩的情况。
Only the sound of insects filled the air as I walked through the empty town that summer day so long ago.
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They have a very high respect for a criminal Jew, who led some kind of guerilla war and was executed long ago, somewhere in Syria.
他们非常尊敬一名犹太罪犯，他指挥了某种游击战，很久以前被处死了，就在叙利亚某处。
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That happened not too long ago, but it was just a really fantastic display of all his work.
那是不久前的事情，但它真的极好地展示了他所有的作品。
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And they walk on rough,rocky paths, many of which follow old railroad tracks and roads used by loggers long ago.
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He described how the story of his family began long ago in Africa when slave traders captured one of his ancestors.
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Not long ago President Nazarbayev declared that his government would take greater control of energy resources.
Not long ago table tennis was a game played by geeky kids in youth clubs.
As Milton Friedman long ago observed, the best purchases are those made by people spending their own money.
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