You can write it out, you can speak it, you can talk as long as you want, as short as you want.

可以写出来或说出来，多长都行，多短也行。

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When I look for it here I'm going to see two pieces, one that's nearly the same length and one that's much shorter.

当我去找时,就找到两个片段,一个片段差不多就是原长,另一个则短得多

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Isn't it interesting how many messages are embedded in that short advertisement.

这么短的广告片却隐含了这么多的信息,是不是很有意思

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Okay. I can't read it but two minutes and fifty seconds, two minutes--this one's only two minutes, three minutes and twenty seconds, that kind of thing.They're short, whereas Beethoven,as mentioned,is much longer.

好，我读不出但是它唱2分50秒，两分钟，这首歌只有两分钟，3分20秒，基本都是这么长，它们都很短，但是我们刚才说的贝多芬就要长的多。

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