He looks like he’s been in a scrap.

他看上去好像跟人打过架。

The ideas have been in circulation for some time.

这些想法已经流行了一段时间。

That song has been in the charts for weeks.

那首歌已有好几周都上了流行榜。

Property sales have been in the doldrums for some time.

房地产销售一段时间以来不大景气。

There has been much shrinkage of the clothes in the wash.

这些衣服洗后已缩了很多。

She has been in great straits (financially) since her husband died.

自从她丈夫去世, 她(在经济方面)一直处于困境。

Things have been in a state of flux since father's death.

父亲死后事情变化不定。

I’ve been up to my neck in job applications for weeks.

几周来我都忙于应付求职的事。

He is too proud to admit that he had been grossly in error.

他骄傲得不肯承认他的错误是严重的。

Mr. Huang has been a good friend to me in adversity or in prosperity.

不管我处于逆境还是顺境, 黄先生一直是我的好友。

He’s been in the pay of our rivals for the last ten years.

过去十年来他一直在秘密地为我们的对手工作。

I learned from his roommate that he had been in hospital for over a week.

从他的室友那里,我知道他已经进医院一个多星期了。

There has been a breakdown in law and order in some parts of the country.

该国某些地区的治安出现了严重问题。

It recently came to light that he’d been in trouble with the police before.

他曾犯过案的事情最近才被披露出来。

The fact that he'd been in prison militated against his chances of getting a job.

他曾蹲过监狱这件事影响了他寻找工作的机会。

The new minister slipped on a banana skin before he had been in the job a week.

新部长上任不到一星期就出了丑。

One of the drivers had been in a crash but, luckily, was none the worse for the experience.

其中一位司机曾出过车祸，但他很幸运，一点也没有受伤。

For Pete’s sake, what are you doing in that bathroom? You’ve been in there for nearly an hour.

天哪，你到底在那浴室里干嘛呢？你已经在里面呆了快一个小时了！

He was the same thin, pleasant, alert, rather agreeable soul that he had been in the heyday of his clerkly prosperity.

他还是和做职员正得意的全盛时期一样，是一个瘦削、高兴、灵活、和蔼可亲的家伙。

Though the cultural power in our country has been pro-moted a lot in recent years, it is still far behind the developed countries.

在我国,文化力的总体水平在不断提高。但在一些具体指标上还是与发达国家有着不小的差距。