很久以前，已经很久了
... Badly off 潦倒，穷困 Long since 很久以前 Okay,这就是外教口语课的魅力,让你在不知不觉的乐趣中,迅速提高口语水平! ...
... long since 早已 something like its proper perspective 基本正确地来看待 in contrast 相反 ...
很久以前；从前
Any doubts had long since been swept away.
一切怀疑早已完全消除。
It is so long since I have seen him!
我很久没见到他了！
Sitting down, the parson said: "It is long since I have seen you, neighbor."
牧师坐了下来，说：“邻居，我很久没见到你了。”
And their original meanings are long since forgotten.
VOA : special.2010.02.14
You've read at this point, long since, Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilych.
你们很久以前就读到过这个观点，托尔斯泰的Ivan，Ilych之死。
死亡课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
It's been a really long time since I have personally followed basketball.
我个人看篮球真的已经很久了。
SpeakingMax英语口语达人 : 现场观看篮球赛
(SAYING) On the southern coast - known as the Costa del Sol - block after block of apartments lie empty or half finished, many of them designed for foreign buyers who have long since abandoned the idea of investing in Spain.
VOA : standard.2010.06.24
The Fed has not tried to influence long-term rates this way since the nineteen sixties.
VOA : special.2009.03.20
If there are any such doubts for Ms. Chen, she has long since erased them.
But that was then, and the goal of the law has long since been realized.
WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Abigail Thernstrom: The Good News About Race in America
Indeed, it has long since ceased to be of central importance even to the local area.