I sold your father that house seventeen years ago.
十七年前我把那栋房子卖给你父亲的。
I'm sorry I forgot your birthday, it completely slipped my mind.
我很抱歉忘了你的生日,我完全不记得了。
it requires 97 per cent less energy to travel the quarter of a million miles from the Moon to Earth-orbit than the 200 mile-journey from Earth's surface into orbit!