Tales of male staff members being discouraged from long leave are still not uncommon, although it is not fashionable to say so.

劝阻男性员工不要休长期的产假的故事已经不流行了，但并非已经完全销声匿迹。

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Unlike his prior leave, when Apple said Mr. Jobs would be gone for six months, this time Mr. Jobs did not say how long he expected to be out.

和上次不一样，当时苹果表示乔布斯将离开半年，这次乔布斯没有说明他预计需要多长时间才能回到工作。

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If you need to wait on a blocking action — say, the results from a remote database query — it is not clear exactly how long you will need to wait for results to be available.

如果您需要等待一个阻塞操作—比如，对于来自远程数据库查询的结果—您不会确切地知道在可以使用结果之前究竟要等待多长时间。

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Many Cuban Americans say money should not be a factor in regard to the embargo as long as the Cuban government represses freedom and aggressively opposes US policies.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

Well, for a thing called main which itself is a function but a function I wrote, a tool I am writing at the moment not like printf which someone else wrote long ago, I have to say where does main start, where does main end, and I do that by using these curly braces.

至于这个名曰main的函数,由我们自己写的函数，也是一个工具,只不过由我们自己编写，而不是像printf那样已经由前人写好了,我们必须要说明main在哪开始，在哪结束，这样我们就要用到大括号了。

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The secretary general would not say when the transition might start, how long it will take, or when it might be possible to start reducing the NATO troop commitment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

To say that Scotland would face a more difficult fiscal position in the medium to long-term is not to say that an independent Scotland could not handle that, but to say that a serious debate is required about HOW it would handle it.

BBC: Scottish independence: not whether, but how?

The attempts to silence WikiLeaks are long strides closer to a world where we can not say what we think and are unable to express our opinions and ideas.

FORBES: WikiLeaks Supporters Aim Cyberattacks At PayPal

They also will want to know how they are supposed to plan long-term investments if the chancellor will not say years in advance how much subsidy will be allowed to go to clean energy sources from people's bills.

BBC: UK Politics