But there's more, and this is why novels are long: - not too long, not too short, but of a certain length-- of a certain magnitude, as Aristotle puts it.

但是当然还有很多别的东西，要不这本书也不会那么长：,不是太长，但也不短，刚刚好能说明清楚问题的长度-,亚里士多德这么评价。

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Because I feel like if, if I sit in front of the computer screen for too long, I just get distracted

因为如果我坐在电脑屏幕前太长时间，就会注意力不集中的，

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And, sad to say, at least one of our tests produced an output that we were unhappy with.

很不幸的是，至少一个测试输出我们,是不满意的，它花费了太长时间。

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They said five years is too short--it's got to be longer -they said fifteen years.

他们说五年太短,要长一点,应该定为十五年

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It's too long and everybody knows what the law is.

太长了,而且大家应该都知道

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It's way too long for a motive.

对于动机太过于长了

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To the broody hen, the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not utterly fascinating and precious and never to be too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her.

对母鸡来说，这个概念可能看起来荒谬,世界上有一种生物,对一窝鸡蛋,着迷，觉得弥足珍贵,对她而言，永远不觉得,孵蛋时间太长。

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But that is too long. So instead we just say, "How about". You can use "How about" in any situation.

但是这样的说法太长了， 所以我们一般就说“How about”来代替。它适用于各种语境。

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And the first crack was a movie that's so long that it used to be the janitors, the people who cleaned these-- the very nice people who cleaned these rooms used to call it a two six-pack movie because it was so long.

第一个漏洞是一部特别长的电影,以前那个楼管,打扫卫生的,给这些教师打扫卫生的优秀工作者,以前管它叫一打啤酒电影因为太长了

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So for next week, I ask you read the first 50 pages and I think they are the reading never get to be much... The second book which was published only in May of this year, Three Philosophical Filmmakers is longer so some of those chapters are a little longer.

所以下周，我要求你们读完前50页,我觉得这些阅读任务,并不太长。,第二本,在今年5月左右出版的书，叫《三个电影哲学家》,所以一些章节会有点长。

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There's one more equation that I wanted to write down ... and I'm going to not-- I'm not going to spend a lot of time explaining this because it's going to take awhile.

这里我想再写一个等式,当然我不会-,我不会花太多的时间解释这个,因为要花太长时间。

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They say it's terrible because they'll have a kid and the kid'll grow up freaky and then the experimenter--it's an interview situation--says, "Well, no. Remember they're both using a lot of birth control."

他们说太糟糕了，他们会生小孩的,小孩长大会变怪胎的,然后向他们提问的实验者说，“不会，他们都做了避孕措施”

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