好半天水才开了。
It took her ages to get over her illness.
她花了很长时间才把病治好。
They've been onto me for ages to get a job.
很久以来，他们一直催促我找份工作。
It'll probably take ages to find a parking space.
大概得老半天才能找到停车位。
It took me ages to put things to rights after the workmen had left.
工人们走后，我花了好长时间才收拾好。
What if the only way of getting news from faraway friends was writing letters that took ages to be delivered (递送) ?
如果从远方朋友那里得到消息的唯一方法是写信，并且这封信要花很长时间才能送到，那会怎么样？
The Chat Bench is a fantastic new project that encourages those of all ages to interact and get to know each other in the future.
“聊天长椅”是一个很棒的新项目，鼓励所有年龄段的人在未来相互交流和了解。
I hate dealing with the bank over the phone because it usually takes ages to get through to the right person.
我讨厌在电话里和银行打交道，因为通常要花很长时间才能接通到合适的人。
There's a lot more data now and it sometimes seems the system has crashed but, in fact, it just takes ages to go from one screen to the next.
现在数据量比以前大得多，而且有时系统看上去已经崩溃了，但事实上只是一个页面跳转到另一个页面花的时间较长而已。
It took me ages to get it out!
我花了很久才把它取出！
Cases can take ages to schedule and even longer to prepare for.
有些案件预约和准备要花上数年的时间。
The 'virtual' keyboards are rubbish, takes ages to type anything.
虚拟键盘是垃圾，打什么都很慢。
In ages to come, the present age may well be remembered as the heyday of the superpower.
在未来的时代中，现在的时代很可能被人们当作超级大国的全盛期而留在记忆中。
You have to have a good enough grasp of kids' capacities at different ages to know when to be surprised.
你得足够敏锐，能够抓住孩子在不同年龄阶段的表现出来的特质，知道什么时候可以表现出惊喜，什么时候不可以。
Young women lie about their ages to get jobs, pleather factories emit toxic fumes, and employers cheat workers out of cash.
年轻女孩子为了得到工作机会谎报年龄，皮革厂排放有毒气体，雇主克扣员工工资。
We all know how buses take ages to turn up, but if more stops were like this one, the wait would at least be comfortable.
我们都知道公交车可以让你等上几个世纪，但是如果有越来越多的车站可以像图片中的一样，那么我们等车的时候至少会感觉舒服些。
I HAVE been feeling a little short of breath on mountain paths lately, and it took me ages to light the barbecue last week.
最近，当我走在山路上，我会感到有些呼吸困难，并且上个礼拜我感到点燃烧烤的炉子总要花上很长时间。
I was in such bad health that they put me at the top of the waiting list, but it can still take ages to find a match; some people never do.
我的健康状况如此之差，以至于他们把我放到了等待移植名单的首位，但仍需一段时间来进行配型；有人从未获得过合适的移植器官。
The members of the G20 big economies could commit themselves to specific structural goals, from raising retirement ages to deregulating things like transport.
大经济体的G20成员国应当为具体的结构目标做出贡献，无论是提高退休年龄还是撤销类似物流等的管制。
This demonstrates that Paris was not France’s only creative centre, but it is not clear what it has to do with the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
这表明巴黎不是法国唯一的创作中心，但是它为从中世纪到文艺复兴的过渡必需做的事情却并不清楚。
The data suggest that the brain's ability to divide attention remains flexible and broad enough at younger ages to compensate for tasks such as walking and talking.
数据暗示，年轻时，大脑有能力分散注意力，能力强到可进行如边走边说这类的任务。
They also would like to borrow at younger ages to raise their consumption at these ages to more appropriate levels compared to their consumption when they are older.
这些人也愿意在年轻时借钱以增加消费，使之对比其年老后的消费水平相对合适。
And the competitiveness pact includes some sensible ideas, including raising retirement ages to 67 and scrapping indexation systems that link wages to prices-though these will be hard to agree.
而且这项竞争协议也包括一些明智的想法，例如，将退休年龄提高到67，废除将工资与物价挂钩的收入指数化制度——尽管这些想法将很难得到一致同意。
This is open to women of all ages, so bring along your friends and colleagues.
这对所有年龄的妇女开放，所以带你的朋友和同事一起来。
Young people of all ages go there to meet.
不同年龄的年轻人都去那里聚会。
Join the UK's leading music theatre company! It is open to all ages.
加入英国领先的音乐戏剧公司！它对所有年龄的人都开放。
Most people cannot consciously remember much before the ages of 3 to 5 years.
多数人不能清楚地记得3到5岁之前的多少事情。
Most people cannot consciously remember much before the ages of 3 to 5 years.
多数人不能清楚地记得3到5岁之前的多少事情。
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