It was a good choice: by the time I was twenty-five, I'd already finished two novels and had an agent.
这是个不错的选择：在我25岁的时候，我就已经写完了两部小说，并且有了一个经纪人。
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。
We had a great time—it was pretty neat.
我们玩得很痛快—棒极了。
I had time to do a quick edit of my essay before handing it in.
我呈交论文之前有点时间，很快地校订了一遍。
It sounds as though you had a good time.
听起来你好像过得挺愉快。
It had been a time of almost uncontrollable excitement.
那曾是个激动时刻，那激动几乎无法控制。
It was the first time in years that a Japanese manufacturer had not topped the list for imported vehicles.
这是多年来日本厂商第一次未能位居进口汽车名单榜首。
They had a wonderful time by the sound of it.
听起来他们好像过得很愉快。
She had a wretched time of it at school.
她上学时的日子十分难熬。
It was the first time Jane and I had been apart for more than a few days.
这是我和简第一次分开超过了几天。
I was angry at the time but we had a good laugh about it afterwards.
我当时很生气，可后来却又觉得十分可笑。
A person who had input into where he would move and has had time to adapt to it might do as well in a nursing home as in a small residential care home, other factors being equal.
在其他因素相同的情况下，如果一个人对他将要搬去的地方有了一定的了解，并且有时间去适应，那么他在养老院的表现可能和在小型安老院的表现一样好。
He had a hard time of it, but did not know it.
他经历了一段艰难的时期，然而他自己并不知道。
Greeley provided a humorous description of himself, written under the pretense that it had been the work of his long-time adversary.
格里利用幽默的话语对自己进行了描述，并假装这是他宿敌的作品。
It's not cheap, but it made her happy, because she had dreamed of having one for a long time.
它并不便宜，但它让她很开心，因为她一直梦想着拥有一个。
John McEnroe, a three-time Wimbledon champ, proclaimed it the best tennis tussle he had ever seen.
曾三次获得温网冠军的美国名家麦肯罗赞叹，这是他见过的最精彩的一场网球赛。
All summer long Heidi had not been up with him a single time; it was too much!
整个夏天海蒂一次也没跟他一起上山；太过分了！
Buffington says he found a soda bottle half buried in the sand that looked like it had been there since the beginning of time.
布芬顿说，他发现了一个半埋在沙子里的汽水瓶，看起来好像从一开始它就在那里。
It seemed as if for a long time that part had been neglected.
似乎在很长一段时间里，那一部分被忽视了。
It was a few years ago, and I had taken a part-time holiday-season job in a video store at the local shopping mall.
那是几年前的事了，我在假期期间在当地购物中心的一家音像店做了一份兼职。
It was used primarily as a vehicle for teaching religion and was generally presented in Latin, the language of the Christian Church which had considerable influence in Italy at that time.
它主要用作宗教教学的工具，通常用拉丁语表达，也就是当时在意大利影响相当大的基督教会语言。
After this technique had been invented, it was only a matter of time before weapons designers adapted it for the detection of submarines.
"这项技术被发明之后，武器设计者将其改造用来探测潜艇只是时间早晚的问题。
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