began a long time ago的意思|示意

Everyone knows that holidays like Christmas and Chinese New Year began a long time ago. But how about Valentine's day? -that holiday of chocolate and CARDS and Cupid?

大家都知道类似圣诞节和中国春节这样的节日在很久以前就有了。那么情人节这个属于巧克力、卡片和小爱神的节日呢？

Dr McKellar's finds suggest, at least, that that complexity began to evolve a long time ago.

麦凯乐博士的这项发现表明，这种复杂在很久很久以前就开始了。

In other words, a long-ago ancestor species that spent its time in the trees moved to the ground and began walking upright.

换句话说，我们的祖先很久以前是活动在树上的，后来下到地面，开始直立行走。

My interest in China began in Spain a long time ago.

我对中国的兴趣早在西班牙就开始了。

However, it is full of controversy at the same time. Although foreign academia began to study it long ago, our country criminal investigation theory study is still a new field.

虽然国外学术界对此早有研究，但在我国的犯罪侦查理论研究上却仍是一个新的领域。

How does everybody know how the cities began? Long time ago, the world had only a few thousand people.

每个人是怎么知道城市是怎样开始的呢？很久以前，世界上只有几千人。