Just as no one could predict what would happen with social media in the last decade, no one can accurately predict where this technology will take us.

就像没人能预测过去十年社交媒体会发生什么一样，也没人能准确预测这项技术会把我们带向何方。

The reality for many U.S. air travelers is that most of their journeys take place on planes that have been in service for a decade or more.

关于很多航空旅客的事实是，他们大部分的旅程都是在已经服役了10年或以上的飞机上进行的。

Let's take our case before Judge Brown, whom we both know has delivered very fair rulings for more than a decade, in cases just like ours.

那让我们把案件交给法官布朗办吧，我们都知道这位法官在过去十多年里对我们这样的案件一直都能做出公正的裁决。

In Britain millions of commuters now take at least an hour to get to work and the number of commuters travelling for more than an hour has risen by 22 per cent in the past decade.

在英国，数百万的乘车上下班者现在至少要花一个小时才能到达工作地点，而且在过去十年内，在上下班路程上花费超过一小时的上班族人数增加了22%。

Over the past decade or so, researchers have begun to focus on the special role dads take in child-rearing.

在过去二十年左右，研究者已经开始关注父亲在抚养孩子中扮演的特殊角色。

Moreover, as API's study suggests, it will take a decade or more of exploration and development to bring new offshore basins into production.

并且根据美国石油研究所得研究，发现新的海上油田并使其投产会花上十年或更长的时间。

We could afford to take a decade to think carefully about what the right mental well-being targets are for the next century.

我们可以负担得起用十年时间去仔细思索何为下个世纪心理健康的正确目标。

At current low sales rates, it may take a decade to clear the backlog of houses owned by the Banks.

按照目前的低销售比例，也许要花十年才能处理掉由银行拥有的房子。

Many of the countries in Africa will probably take longer than a decade to catch-up on infrastructure and will probably have to use lower cost technologies.

非洲很多国家可能要花十多年时间才能赶上其他地区的基础设施水平，也可能被迫使用低成本技术。

Eight in 10 fathers now take a third of the total 13 months of leave - and 9 percent of fathers take 40 percent of the total or more - up from 4 percent a decade ago.

现在，每十个父亲中就有八个会休到13个月的假期的三分之一，9%的父亲会休到整个假期的40%以上，这比十年前上升了4个百分点。

This story has the potential to drag on well into the next decade -- when for $1.5 million, all of Thomas-Rasset's four kids could finish law school and take up the fight on her behalf. .

这件事很有可能会延续到下一个十年期内——也就是托马斯-拉塞特的4个孩子从法律学院毕业，代替她承担起战斗责任的时候。

The super-slim, 100m-tall launcher is a demonstrator for the vehicle Nasa plans to use in the next decade to take its new astronaut crewship into orbit.

这是一款运载工具的演示品，身高100米却超级苗条，在未来10年中，美国宇航局计划用它把新的宇航员乘坐舱送入轨道。

Nonetheless, he does not expect shale gas to have a “material effect” on European supply for a decade, since drilling will take some time to ramp up.

尽管如此，他并没有指望页岩天然气在未来十年内对欧洲的能源供应产生实质影响，毕竟钻探还要花费一些时日。

They might take a decade to mature.

他们可能需要十年才会成熟。

However, new fields can take a decade to develop.

然而，新的油田需要数十年时间来开发。

Maybe instead I'll get to look and feel younger and stronger a decade or more longer than the man afraid to break the law and take my same gamble.

也许我会看上去年轻十来岁，身体更加强壮，比害怕打破常规和不敢冒我这同样险的人更加长寿。

Designing systems that ensure they respond in a safe and effective way may take a decade or more.

给无人机设计一个能够确保它安全有效处理偶然因素的系统需要十年或更长时间。

Numerous astronomical surveys will probe space-stretching dark energy, although figuring out what it is could take much longer than another decade.

大量的天文观测将会探查使宇宙延展的暗能量，即使再花上十数年才有可能搞清它的真面目。

He also said it would not work to just let the Banks work the assets off their books over time, since it would could take a decade or more, similar to what happened to Japan in the 1990s.

他还表示，让银行剥离这类资产的工作不会立刻完成，可能将需要花费十年甚至更多的时间，就像1990年代日本发生的那样。

A decade later, however, she went to Clearwater, intending to take some upper-level courses, and was told that the previous ruling no longer applied.

然而，十年之后，她去了清水镇，打算上一些进阶课程时，却被告知先前的裁决不再适用。

But one thing is for certain, he did not take it to make him lay the kind of football with which he has bewitched the world for a decade.

可有一点是肯定的，他不会将此药物用在他那十年来使世人痴迷的足球上面。

Take the Ghomroud water conveyance system, a network of tunnels built earlier in the last decade in the Isfahan mountains to improve nearby water supply.

就拿Ghomroud输水工程来说，为了改善伊斯法罕山脉附近的供水紧张局面，在过去的十年里打通建成了数条隧道。

He expects it to take a decade or more to overcome the shortage.

他预期填补这一空缺还需要10年或更长的时间。

It will take at least 21 million net new jobs over the coming decade to return to a 5 percent unemployment rate, according to McKinsey.

这将需要在接下来的10年里提供至少2100万净新增就业岗位，才能恢复到5%的失业率水平，麦肯锡公司说。