He ran a property development business in the eighties.

他在80年代经营一家房地产开发公司。

He began his journalistic career in the early eighties in Australia.

他于八十年代早期在澳大利亚开始了他的新闻事业。

I spent a lot of time in the early Eighties travelling between Waco and El Paso.

在八十年代早期，我花了很多时间往返于韦科和埃尔帕索之间。

He was in his late eighties and had become the country's most respected elder statesman.

那时他年近九十，并且已经成为该国最受尊敬的政界元老。

It is possible to have a microeconomic success and a macroeconomic failure, as Britain did in the late eighties.

微观经济的成功和宏观经济的失败是可能共存的，就像80年代末的英国那样。

In his eighties, he was still doing the same job.

他80多岁了，还在做同样的工作。

Although she is in her eighties, Tu Youyou still keeps on doing research on medicine.

尽管屠呦呦已经八十多岁了，她仍然继续从事医学研究。

Although the man is in his eighties, he grows vegetables in person in his garden.

虽然这个人已经八十多岁了，但他还是亲自在花园里种菜。

She is in her eighties and is very weak and I always bring her lunch on Fridays.

她八十多岁了，身体很虚弱，每周五我都给她带午饭。

History has entered the eighties.

历史进入到八十年代。

My grandfather might be in his eighties but he is as tough as old boots.

我的祖父虽然已经八十多岁了，但他的身体依然硬朗。

Despite a slow start at the beginning of the eighties, global economic output increased by more than a fifth during the decade.

尽管在80年代初起步缓慢，全球经济产出在这十年中增长了百分之二十以上。

Even worries about uprising gas prices and future fuel availability subsided in the eighties almost as quickly as they had emerged.

即使是对汽油油价上涨和未来燃料供应的担忧，在80年代也几乎以同样快的速度消失了。

Benjamin Franklin produced some of his best writings at the age of 84, and Pablo Picasso put brush to canvas right through his eighties.

本杰明·富兰克林在84岁时创作了一些最好的作品，巴勃罗·毕加索直到80多岁还在画布上作画。

This was back in the early eighties, so it was weird.

这是一种产于80年代的酒，所以有点怪异。

But since the nineteen eighties Niger has gotten a lot greener.

但自从20世纪80年代以来，尼日尔的绿化越来越好。

Judge Harris was in his early eighties but still sharp and very wise.

哈里斯法官80岁出头，但仍然精明、智慧过人。

Some believe it came from television programs popular in the nineteen eighties.

有些人认为它出自20世纪80年代流行的电视节目。

By the mid-Eighties, they were shorter than ever when shares reached new heights.

到了上世纪八十年代中期，随着股市再创新高，裙子长度比以往任何时候都要短。

Most of the nuclear fleet came into service in the late seventies and early eighties.

大部分的核舰队投入使用，在17世纪后期和18世纪早期。

We did a lot of good work in the governors' conferences in the seventies and eighties.

70和80年代，我们在州长大会上做了很多有益的工作。

Toy manufacturers are going back to the future with a relaunch of an Eighties favourite this Christmas.

今年圣诞节，玩具制造商们将重返旧途，重新生产那些80年代最受欢迎的玩具。

The middle class had been shafted in the eighties, and Bush had been crippled by signing a gas-tax increase.

中产阶级在80年代受到了不公平的对待，而且老布什因为签署了增加汽油税的法案而遭遇了很多抨击。

Over the years, I have met many people who discovered hidden talents when they were in their seventies and eighties.

过去的一些年里，我见过的许多人，他们都在七八十岁时发现了自己隐藏的天赋。

'I once saw a couple in their eighties who, after 50 years of marriage, realised what the problem was,' says Aston.

“我曾见过一对夫妻，已经80多岁了，结婚也50年了，现在才明白他们的问题在哪儿。”Aston说。

I got some boos, too, for referring to the eighties as a decade of greed and opposing a cut in the capital gains tax.

我也招来了一些嘘声，因为我称80年代是贪婪的十年，并反对削减资本收益税。