The clean-up will take years or even decades.
而清理污染将持续数年甚至数十年。
The harmful effects of GM foods could take years, or even decades, to appear. .
可能要数年甚至几十年才能表现出来。
It could take many years or even decades for mature trees to succumb tothe fungus.
成年的松树要经过几年甚至几十年的抗争才会输给这种菌类。
The it in most large organizations has grown over a period of years or even decades - and it shows.
在过去的几年甚至是数十年间，许多大型机构中的IT部门成长起来。
The firms that have enjoyed years or even decades of life with no or weak competitors have created such barriers.
有的公司几年或者甚至是几十年没有或只有弱势的竞争者，是因为它们已经创造出了这种障碍。
Most of tobacco’s damage to health does not become evident until years or even decades after the onset of use.
烟草对健康的损害大多都直到使用后多年甚或几十年才显现出来。
You may have worked years or even decades at a regular job, but now you get to make your own rules and set your own hours.
也许你已经从事一项正规的工作几年或者几十年了，但是现在你要给自己制定规则，安排自己的工作时间。
You may have worked years or even decades at a regular job, but now you get to make your own rules and set your own hours.
大概你已从事一项正规的事变几年或几十年了，但是如今你要给本身订定规矩，安排本身的事变时间。
Having to look for a job at the wrong time can force us into compromises whose repercussions can last years or even decades.
不得已在时机不好的情况下找工作，可能迫使我们做出妥协，而这种妥协的影响可能持续数年乃至数十年。
One Bengali village has a tradition of long migrations: Many men leave for years or even decades, but always intend to return.
在孟加拉的一个村庄里，保留着长途迁移的传统：许多人离开村子几年或者几十年，但最终还是要回到家乡的。
Experts said remnants of the destroyed satellite could threaten to damage or destroy other satellites for years or even decades to come.
专家称被摧毁的卫星残骸可能在未来几年年甚至十几年内对太空中的其他卫星造成损害。
The more you do to cultivate these relationships, the more opportunities you 'll create for yourself in the world of work, perhaps for years or even decades to come.
你为培养这种关系付出的努力越多。为自己在职业上创造的机会也越多，说不定对今后的几年甚至几十年都会产生影响。
Although the family income has quickly increased with the overall economic growth, it may take years or even decades before the personal consumption habits will change.
尽管家庭收入随着整体经济增长而迅速增加，但个人消费习惯可能需要好几年甚至好几十年才能改变。
Snuff is a fine grinding of high quality tobacco at the end, the incorporation of rare medicinal herbs such as musk, and aging in a sealed Lawan in a few years or even decades made.
衡水鼻烟壶在研磨极细的优质烟草末中，掺入麝香等名贵药材，并在密封蜡丸中陈化数年以至数十年而成。
For decades that's exactly what's prevented the idea from being feasible or even just taken seriously.
几十年来，这正是这种设想不可行或甚至不被人们严肃对待的原因。
One of the world's top climate modellers said Thursday we could be about to enter one or even two decades during which temperatures cool.
星期四，一位世界顶尖气候模型制造者称，我们可能即将进入“十年乃至二十年气温变凉的时期。”
But he asserts that Zipingpu, just 5.5 kilometers from the quake's epicenter, may have caused the Longmenshan fault to fail decades or even centuries earlier than it might have without added stress.
但是他认为距震中仅5.5公里远的紫坪铺水库，使得龙门山断层破裂的时间可能因为负载的压力增加而提前了几十年甚至几个世纪。
Yet that isn't enough, since many people work hard for decades without approaching greatness or even getting significantly better.
然而这还不够，许多人数十年辛苦，仍然未能取得杰出成就，甚至没有取得重大进步。
This wasn't a perfect strategy, or even a noble one, but it was supremely self-interested approach that ensured U.S. primacy for decades.
这不是什么完美的策略，甚至并不高尚。但却非常自利，确保了美国数十年的国际领先地位。
But even if therapies are years or decades away, identifying patients earlier in the disease cycle will remain valuable.
就算这些有效的疗法可能在几年甚至几十年后才会出现，但能够在病人发病前提早发现，也是很有其存在价值的。
Terrible secret activities that we could not even imagine will take place, some to be revealed only years or decades later.
可怕的秘密活动，我们甚至不能想象会发生一些被发现只有数年或数十年后。
If so, like the Kahns, your happiness may depend on habits of mind, chief among them flexibility, that you would need to have developed decades, or even a whole lifetime, earlier.
如果是这样，像Kahn一家一样，你的快乐可能基于你想问题的方式，主要在于几十年甚至一辈子积累出的随性。
Even if we start reducing the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, the climate is going to keep_on warming for decades or centuries.
尽管我们已经开始减少二氧化碳和其他温室气体的排放量，但是在未来的几十年或几个世纪里气候将会持续变暖。
Diagnosis of narcolepsy can take a very long time, sometimes more than one year, or even up to several decades.
嗜睡症的诊断要花很长的时间，有时会超过一年，甚至要好几十年。
It seems incredible that just two decades ago, Hungarians could not travel, speak, or even meet freely, for fear of the secret police, imprisonment or worse.
那对于二十年前来说是不可思议的，匈牙利人在秘密警察的威慑下，不能自由旅行、发表言论甚至是见面，这样有可能会遭来入狱之灾甚至更坏的结果。
A cholera pandemic is a cholera epidemic that can last many years or even a few decades at a time, and that spreads to many countries and across continents and oceans.
霍乱大流行一次可以持续多年甚至几十年，而且可以横跨大陆和海洋，蔓延至很多国家。
But people can live quite unhappily in failed relationships for years and even decades because they're afraid they won't find anything better, or worse, they're afraid they deserve it.
而是人们能不开心的维持一段失败的关系长达几年甚至几十年，仅仅是因为他们担心找不到比这更好的，更糟的是，有些人认为恐怕这是注定的。
It used to take decades, or even centuries, for the technologies of one country to be adopted in another Now software can be developed in California, and be applied immediately in Bombay or Beijing.
过去，一个国家采纳另一个国家的技术需要几十年甚至几百年。现在，软件可以在加利福尼亚制作完成，然后马上到孟买或北京投入应用。
It used to take decades, or even centuries, for the technologies of one country to be adopted in another Now software can be developed in California, and be applied immediately in Bombay or Beijing.
过去，一个国家采纳另一个国家的技术需要几十年甚至几百年。现在，软件可以在加利福尼亚制作完成，然后马上到孟买或北京投入应用。
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