The difficulty of a problem was defined in terms of how long it took to complete.
问题的难易度是以解决这个问题所花时间的长短而定的。
It was up to him to make it right, no matter how long it took.
不管需要花多长时间，把事情摆平是他的责任。
Michael was ready: he wanted to see how long it took him to do a billion miles.
迈克尔已经准备好了：他想看看自己飞10亿英里需要多长时间。
I still remember how long it took to polish the legs of our coffee table.
我依然记得擦亮我们的咖啡桌子腿儿要花多长时间。
It took me surprisingly long to realize how distracting the Internet had become, because the problem was intermittent.
我用了很长时间才发现互联网是多么让人分心，因为这个问题是断断续续的。
But notice how long it took us to get there, how many centuries it took.
但是要注意到这要多长时间，它花了多少个世纪。
If you consider how long it took me to explain why I vetoed the bill, you understand why it was terrible politics to do so.
如果你考虑到我花了那么长时间解释为什么要否决这样的法案，你就会明白禁止这样做的政策是多么可怕。
Do you really care how long it took me to write this article?
你难到真的很关心我花费了多少时间来写成这篇文章的？
I don't know how long it took for them to celebrate but it took some time and that's where the added time came from.
我不知道他们庆祝进球到底花了多少时间，但确实是庆祝了一会儿，这就是为什么后来又加了一点时间。
His genius was to understand what he needed and work out how to obtain it, however long it took.
他的天才之处在于理解自己所需并找出获取的方法，不管要等多久也要弄到手。
Look for success stories: see what they did, and, particularly, how long it took to see results.
看看那些成功故事：成功者都做了什么，尤其是，花了多长时间达到目标。
When it comes to time perception, most people are not very good at estimating at how long it took them to do a particular activity.
当涉及到时间感觉的时候，大多数人都不能很好地估计出他们在一个具体行为上耗费的时间有多久。
Once you land on the other side, you’ll realize how easy it was to cross the lake, and you’ll likely wonder what took you so long in the past to simply: decide, focus and take action.
一旦你在彼岸着陆，你就会发现穿过这条湖是如此简单容易，而且你会惊讶于过去耽搁了你那么久的时间却又举步甚微的窘境，如今可以用简单的决定、专注和行动三步就可以解决了。
Sargent's work showed how the public and banks adjusted to the change through a gradual learning process, explaining why it took a long time for inflation to come down.
萨金特的研究表明了公众和银行如何通过逐渐的学习过程来适应政策变化，解释了为什么通货膨胀需要经过长时间才能平息下来。
It took me a long time to understand how they are different and how to use them together to enhance the development process.
我花了很长一段时间理解二者的区别，以及如何结合使用两者来改进开发过程。
Religion is seldom the casus belli: indeed, in many struggles, notably the Middle East in modern times, it is amazing how long it took for religion to become a big part of the argument.
宗教信仰很少成为开战的理由：实际上，令人惊奇的是在很多斗争中，特别是在现代的中东，宗教信仰成为争论的焦点需要多少时间。
In a study involving more than 100 volunteers, Fox's team checked how long it took people to react to good and bad images that flashed up on a computer screen.
在一项研究中，福克斯的小组检测了超过100名志愿者对电脑屏幕上闪现的令人愉快和难受的图片做出反应的时间。
During the process they underwent sophisticated scans that mapped which parts of their brain were lighting up and timed how long it took them to respond to a joke.
在此过程中，研究人员对受测者进行了精确的脑部扫描，以绘制出他们大脑的哪些部位被“点亮”，并对他们对一个笑话做出反应的时间进行了测定。
He began scanning pages, timed how long it took with a metronome, ran the Numbers and realized it would be possible to bring the world's books online.
他开始扫描书的内页，并计算所花费的时间，这使他渐渐的意识到完全可以把书转化成网络在线的形式。
What we weren't prepared for was how long it took to do the acceptance tests by hand.
我们没有准备的是手工进行验收测试要花费多长时间。
That kind of value has no relation to how long it took you to do the job.
这种价值与你为这个工作花费的时间长短无关。
Various data are displayed, such as the time the request started, how long it took to load, the size, and the results.
显示的数据包括发出请求的时间、装载所用的时间、大小和结果。
If the quake's magnitude is greater than 6.5 and the epicentre is underwater, it then requests information from the relevant stations on how long the earthquake took from beginning to end.
如果级数超过6.5级且震中位于水下，系统则要求相关监测站报送地震全程持续时间。
This took maybe twenty lines of Perl, and the result was much faster than a more general solution, to say nothing of how long it would have taken to write a GUI application to do the same thing.
这个程序只有20行perl代码，而且它的速度比更一般的解决方案快得多，根本不需要花费很长时间编写GUI应用程序来完成同样的任务。
Once the classes have loaded, the application reports how many it loaded and how long it took, as shown in Figure 2
装载类之后，应用程序报告它装载了多少个类以及花费的时间，见图2
It wasn't until I started tracking how long it actually took me to take a shower and get out of the house did I understand that I needed to get up about 20 minutes earlier.
直到我追踪发现我淋浴和离开房间的时间我才发现我需要早起20分钟。
Notice just how dang long it took before Notes was really good enough that people started buying it.
不难发现，人们是过了n长一段时间后才觉得Notes是个好东东，才开始掏腰包的。
After seeing how long it took the bot to crawl without a Sitemap, I figured there was a problem with the structure of the website and the bots couldn't crawl to the new pages.
看到搜索引擎蜘蛛在没有Sitemap的情况下爬行到新页面后的时间后，我一度以为这个网站的结构有问题，导致搜索引擎蜘蛛不能爬到新页面。
After seeing how long it took the bot to crawl without a Sitemap, I figured there was a problem with the structure of the website and the bots couldn't crawl to the new pages.
看到搜索引擎蜘蛛在没有Sitemap的情况下爬行到新页面后的时间后，我一度以为这个网站的结构有问题，导致搜索引擎蜘蛛不能爬到新页面。
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