They took a long time getting to the top, the only reward for the long years of waiting being that when they had their own newspapers, both knew what they wanted and firmly set about getting it.

他们花了很长时间才达到顶峰，多年等待的唯一回报是，当他们有了自己的报纸，他们俩都知道自己想要什么，并坚定地着手去实现它。

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Yet most continental Europeans were breezily optimistic. The long years of being lectured about their inadequacies by the Anglo-Saxons were over.

然而，大多数的欧洲大陆人却表现得很乐观，因为长期被英国人批评的状况结束了。

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Each member of the colonizing team brought something they thought you'd appreciate, something you could watch or read or study in the long years ahead.

开拓殖民队的每一位成员都带来了些他们认为你会喜欢的礼物，一些你可以在未来的漫长几年里头拿来看看、读读、学学的东西。

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Also,the root can stay in the ground for as long as three years, so it can be harvested as needed.

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Pax Romana This led to what we famously call the Pax Romana, "the Roman Peace," because you had the end of long, hundreds of years of civil wars and other wars, at least within Rome itself.

这导致了著名的，即“罗马和平“，因为长达几百年的，内战及大小战争终于结束了，至少在罗马本土结束了。

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I guess you've already looked at Stocks for the Long Run; you've seen 200 years worth of data.

我想你们已经读过《股市长线法宝》,见过长达200年的数据

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Moreover, the long years of opposition have made Labour's leaders expert in the political arts.

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The long years of Da'wa were over, the calls and warnings had been issued, and the revolutions began.

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Most of the villagers still consider themselves Syrian, although many have taken Israeli citizenship during the long years of occupation.

BBC: Israel approves pullout from Lebanon border village