Your practice may be quite short if you simply walk to the mailbox, or it may be long if you incorporate your practice into a weekend hike through the woods.
当你只是去自家邮箱，你的默想就可能很短，而当你周末在森林里徒步旅行，你的行走默想就可能很长。
A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but, if properly handled, it may become a driving force.
长期不费力气就能取得成功的历史可能是一种可怕的障碍，但如果处理得当，它可能会成为一种推动力。
The empty shell of a snail or clam may be left behind, and if it is sufficiently durable and resistant to dissolution, it may remain basically unchanged for a long period of time.
蜗牛或蛤蜊的空壳可能会被留下来，如果足够持久和抗溶解，它可能会在很长一段时间内基本保持不变。
If the confrontation has crystallized in this latest battle, it may already be heading toward a predictable conclusion: In the long run, the tech companies are destined to emerge victoriously.
如果在最近的这场战斗中，双方的对抗已经明朗化，那么可能已经有了一个可以预见的结论：从长远来看，科技公司注定会成功崛起。
If the confrontation has crystallized in this latest battle, it may already be heading toward a predictable conclusion: In the long run, the tech companies are destined to emerge victorious.
如果在最新的这场斗争中冲突越来越明确的话，那么战斗的结果可能也已经日渐明朗：从长远来看，技术公司必定会取得胜利。
You see, some things may cost a bit more in the short-run, but be worth it in the long-run.
你看，有些东西短期内可能会贵一些，但长远来看是值得的。
On the whole, you may be pretty sure, if you go into your garden, and find many flowers — as tulips, marigolds and morning glories — shut, it will be a stormy day, unfit for picnics or long walks.
总的来说，如果你走进花园，发现郁金香、金盏花和牵牛花都合上了花瓣，你可以肯定，这天将会有暴风雨，不适合野餐或长时间散步。
This one may be a bit more difficult to pull off, but it can go a long way to achieving results.
这一点可能更难实现，但要达到效果需要很长一段时间。
It can loosely be described as travel that takes place at regular intervals—often in an annual cycle—that may involve many members of a species, and is rewarded only after a long journey.
它可以比较粗略地描述成是发生在固定周期（这个周期通常是一年一次）的包含某一个物种很多成员的集体旅行，并且只有在长途旅行后才有回报。
But it may be a long and painful grind.
但是，这将会是一个漫长而痛苦的磨砺过程。
Even 100 year old, it may be prolonged in a person's life, but comparing with the long river of history it is quite short.
就算100岁吧，在人的一生中可能是漫长的，但在历史的长河中也是相当短暂的。
It may be beneficial to go through a long term cycle of goal setting followed by curious exploration and wandering.
这可能对一个长期的目标设定然后紧跟探索和思索的周期经历是有益的。
It may not be much, but it probably adds up over the long run.
或许这并不多，但也许这加在一起就超过了一段长期的时间。
This may not last long. But it will be remembered.
这种情绪可能不会持续太久，但是值得铭记。
It may not be long before we witness the extinction of one of the world's six species of tigers, the Amur (or Siberian) tiger (Panthera tigris altaica).
东北虎（也叫西伯利亚虎）是世界上的六种老虎之一，我们目睹它们绝种的日子将不再遥远了。
The capacity of the appliance limits how many sessions it can keep track of, and if it reaches the limit, long-running sessions may be dropped.
这个装置的容量限制了它可以记录多少会话，如果达到极限，长时间运行的会话可能被丢弃。
This policy addresses the concerns about what in a descendant stream may be different, and how long it may remain different from its ancestor.
本政策处理了后代流中有什么是不同的，以及它与起始之间将会维持多长时间的差异性。
While that may get you a free lunch, it won't be the long term approach you'll want to base a career on.
尽管阿谀奉承能使你得到短期的利益，但是这绝对不会是你想要能作为长期职业的方法。
The business value of a message might be long-lived or it may vanish in seconds (tortoises and hares).
消息的业务价值可能是长期存在的，或者可能在数秒内消失(好比乌龟和兔子)。
It may be a long time, though, before they become as safe and reliable as civil aircraft.
不过，在这些飞机要能像民航那样安全可靠可能还要花很长的时间。
So although tiny wormholes do exist, and it may be possible to inflate one some day, it won't last long enough to be of use as a time machine.
所以，即使微小的虫洞确实存在，某一天也可能膨胀，但它并不能持续足够长时间供时间机器使用。
For the most irrepressible generation that ever lived, it may be a long goodbye.
对于有史以来最势不可挡的一代，这将是一场路漫漫其修远兮的告别。
While garbage collection may not yet be totally invisible, it sure has come a long way.
垃圾收集还不能做到完全不可见，这肯定还有很长的路要走。
Although a far more capable aircraft than those it is replacing, it may not be useful enough for long enough to justify the size of the planned order.
虽然要比被替换机种的能效大得多，但是光这一点还不够。能否完成计划中的订购数需要足够的时间去证明。
So if your application calls a file that has unusually long transactions, it may be wise to include frequent commits based upon your log Settings, or to update your database logging parameters.
因此，如果您的应用程序调用具有罕见长事务的文件，根据您的日志设置包含频繁的提交操作，或者更新数据库日志记录参数，也许是好办法。
Although it may be too long, the plaudits are deserved.
虽然这本书或许太冗长，却值得嘉奖。
But raw money may not be quite as important as it was long thought to be.
但是存粹的金钱并不能像人们一直以来想像的那样重要。
But raw money may not be quite as important as it was long thought to be.
但是存粹的金钱并不能像人们一直以来想像的那样重要。
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