Inglis said phone boxes called to mind an age when things were built to last. "I like what they are to people, and I enjoy bringing things back," he said.
英格利斯说，电话亭让人想起了东西可以持久耐用的年代。他说：“我喜欢他们对人们造成的影响，我也喜欢回忆他们。”
They built to last, for they thought their city would last for ever.
他们建筑是为了存续，因为他们以为他们的城会永远存在。
Inglis said phone boxes called to mind an age when things were built to last.
英格利斯说：“电话亭让人想起了发明创造经久耐用的年代。”
Thanks to the government, several new primary schools were built in my hometown last year.
感谢政府，去年我的家乡建了几所新的小学。
Your American houses are built to last only 20 years so builders could sell new houses at the end.
你们美国人的房子仅仅能住上20年，这样开发商就可以在这之后又卖新房子给人们了。
Individual services are built to last-the availability and stability of a given service is critical.
一个服务是以存续为前提构建的——服务的可用性和稳定性是其关键。
Spirit and Opportunity, two solar-powered rovers that landed on Mars in 2004, were built for a mission intended to last 90 days.
两位太阳能漫游者，勇气号与机遇号，自从2004年在火星登录，本来计划执行一项为时90天的任务。
Instead of a battery lasting two days, the same battery providing power to sensor systems built with carbon nanotube transistors may last up to two weeks, "said Przybysz."
代之以持续两天的电池，同样的电池为用碳纳米管晶体管制造的传感器系统提供的能量可以持续两周的时间。
Even in small towns a number of theatres have been built in the last few years to cater for the local population.
即使在小城镇，过去几年内也已建了一批剧院来满足当地人们的需求。
The first two - the first in the UK to be built for social housing - were completed last year in nearby Waddington.
前两个—是第一次在英国为了社会住房而建造的——于去年在沃丁顿附近完工。
Its products are well-engineered and built to last.
它的产品设计精良而且经久耐用。
“Built to Last”, published in 1994, enabled Collins to retire from teaching.
出版于1994年的《基业长青》使得柯林斯退出了教学工作。
So building to last is no good, services have to be built to change.
因此一成不变并不好，服务必须随变化而构建。
Sewer systems weren't built to handle all that water. The last 10 years have seen more severe storms causing sewer overflows.
增加了的降水量超过排水系统的负荷。过去10年间，暴雨常引发下水道溢流。
Our products might not be built to last like they used to, but chances are, we won't be using them long enough to care.
我们的产品可能不如从前那样永存，但实际上，我们不会很长时间地使用他们。
The Commerce Department said sales of newly built homes last month fell to the lowest level in 13 years. The median price of homes sold was down nearly three percent from a year earlier.
商务部说，上个月新建房屋的销售下降到13年来的最低水平，售出房屋的中间价格几乎比一年前下跌了3%。
(in "Built to Last") we really studied some of the greatest entrepreneurs in history.
(在《基业长青》中)，我们研究了历史上最伟大的一些创业者。
Technological toys aren't built to last, either as playthings or as trends.
技术这种玩意儿，作为一种玩具或是一种潮流，永远走在时代的前沿。
Presumably, these things are correlated: a group stays together because its dwelling is built to last.
据推测，这些事情是相辅相成的：一个群体呆在一起是因为这个群体的巢穴要建起来保持良好。
The first targets in Georgia last August were military installations built to NATO standards.
去年八月俄罗斯在格鲁吉亚的最初目标就是在那里建立与北约标准相当的军事设施。
Old technology is built to last.
老技术得以永存。
He argues that "most software built for large Numbers of users or designed to last indefinitely fails at both goals anyway."
他认为“大多数以为大规模用户使用或者以永久使用为目标的软件一般都会已失败而告终。”
Jim Collins and Jerry Porras were largely responsible for a revival of interest in the "visioning thing" in the mid-1990s with their best-selling book "Built to Last".
20世纪90年代中期，籍着合作的畅销书《基业常青》，吉姆·科林斯和杰里·波勒斯对“愿景塑造”的复兴作出了主要的贡献。
In ten years time we may look at Skype in the same way we look at Amazon and Google, as a huge built-to-last company, for these ten reasons.
在今后的十年时间里我们可以将Skype视为跟Google和亚马逊一样的一个基业长青的大公司，理由如下。
My favorite example is Jim Collins, the author of Built to Last and Good to Great. Here is what the New York Times wrote about him.
其中我最喜欢的是吉姆·科林斯的例子，他是《基业长青》和《从优秀到卓越》的作者。
Not only will then plant be 'fit for purpose' but it will be built to last.
不仅仅是建造“目标适合性”的设备而且是在建造一项长青的基业。
From on-time deliveries, to competitive pricing and to superior quality, our products are built to last.
从按时交付，有竞争力的价格和优良的品质，我们的产品建造的最后一次。
Constructed of pressed steel and stainless steel, this sturdy and attractive fire pit is built to last a lifetime.
压制钢，不锈钢，这个坚固的和有吸引力的火坑人工建造的，是持续一生。
Constructed of pressed steel and stainless steel, this sturdy and attractive fire pit is built to last.
压制钢，不锈钢，这个坚固的和有吸引力的火坑人工构建的最后。
But there is another reason: Insects are built to last.
但是这里还有另外一个原因：昆虫癿结构。
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