| 1. | He is forty years of age and still unmarried .
他已经四十岁，还没有结婚。 |
| 2. | He might be forty years old; he stooped a little in walking .
他大概有40岁；走起路来，有点儿拱腰曲背。 |
| 3. | After the funeral, joe and bert revealed a secret which they had kept for over forty years .
葬礼之后，乔和伯特才把他们保守了四十多年的秘密公诸于众。 |
| 4. | To have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years .
沉思40年人生与沉思一万年人生没有两样。 |
| 5. | The average shore employment requires as much as forty years to equip a man with this sort of an education .
干陆地上的工作，需要四十年之久，才能使人获得这种教育。 |
| 6. | Barnard's observation, made forty years ago, sounds remarkably like what we might hear from mr. matsushita .
巴纳德40年前发表的评论听起来很象我们从松下先生那里听到的。 |
| 7. | It is a curious coincidence that the day before his retirement , mr. page will have been teaching for a total of forty years .
到他退休的前，佩支先生正好教了整整四十年的书，这是一个奇妙的巧合。 |
| 8. | "i don't suppose it will take more than thirty or forty years for the churches to get together," carol said innocently .
“我不认为要花上三、四十年的时间，那些教会才能联合起来。”卡萝尔天真地说。 |
| 9. | It dawns on us rather suddenly that the number of passengers on the small spaceship we inhabit is doubling about every forty years .
我们几乎是突然认识到，我们居住的这个小小星球上的旅客人数，正以大约每四十年翻一番的速度在增长。 |
| 10. | He was devoted to the revolution about forty years
他的目的是清朝手里解放中国。 |
