"What I would like for the country and everybody to know is that with the age of the computer, it takes time for us to try to keep up with the computer but if some people would start writing again, and sending their bills by mail, maybe it could ease a little of the burden as far as the financial difficulties that we are in."

VOA: standard.2010.04.13

So here's how well off you are, here is time, and you start with nothing and you end up incredibly well off.

纵坐标代表你的处境，横坐标代表时间，你从一无所有到辉煌腾达。

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I served as Master of Silliman College for six years and during that time I would get up at 5 or 5:30 in the morning and start working.

我在西利曼学院当了六年院长,那时我会在早上五点或五点半起床,并开始工作

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Or you get a cold, the cold virus takes hold, the viruses start replicating inside of you and it takes some time for immune system to gear up to eliminate it, so we're used to thinking about responses that take some time.

或者你得了感冒,感冒病毒扎根在你的身体中,病毒开始在你体内复制,免疫系统需要一定时间做好准备去消灭它,所以我们曾认为免疫反应需要一定时间

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