Beets much larger than that can be tough and have to be cooked for a long time.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

And the Aristotelian view held for a long time, but eventually it started to crumble in the light of more data.

而亚里士多德的观点在很长时间里得到了认同，但最终还是崩溃了,在越来越多的数据面前。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And yeah, it takes a long time to get good at it. A lot of fitness, too. A lot of working out.

要想划得熟练需要时间。体能也要好。再加上大量的锻炼。

MIT赛艇选手 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This led him to write and record songs for his own album, "A Long Time Coming."

VOA: special.2009.03.27

This is the world, particularly the legal world, catching up with where religious and cultural concepts have been for a very long time.

这就是这个世界，尤其是法律世界，向宗教和文化概念靠拢的地方,而后两者已存在很长时间了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The day was very hot, and Taylor stood for a long time in the burning sun.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

So it took a long time for the twenty books that we have to get settled on. And we'll talk about how that actually happened,also,still.

所以很长一段时间之后那27本书,才最终被确定下来，我们会谈及,那是如何实现的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Ancient Greek myths told of a time long ago when people lived in peace and happiness.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

A lot of these processed foods have very long shelf lives and therefore can be stored for long periods of time.

很多加工食品为了便于储藏销售,都有很长的保质期

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

He says even if people have a healthy body weight, sitting for long periods of time still has an unhealthy influence on blood sugar and blood fats.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

When do they start thinking of themselves as French? And this has been hotly debated in the literature for a very long time.

他们什么时候开始觉得自己是法国人了,这曾在文学界,引起长时间热烈的讨论

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Sometimes, symptoms of the disease appear and then disappear for a long time.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

It's true, these questions have been debated for a very long time but the very fact that they have recurred and persisted may suggest that though they're impossible in one sense, they're unavoidable in another.

诚然，这些问题争论已久,但正因为这些问题反复出现,也许表明，虽然在某种意义上它们无法解决，但另一种意义上，却又无可避免。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Smiley stood looking down at Dan'l a long time, and at last says,"

VOA: special.2009.08.29

The Greeks already had a century's long tradition of poetic education going back centuries to the time of Homer and Hesiod that set out certain exemplary models of heroic virtue and civic life.

希腊人已有世纪长的,诗学教育传统,可回溯到几个世纪前的荷马,与赫西奥德，他们为,英雄美德与公民生活确立了典范。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

After one gathering, several men surrounded her and talked for a long time.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

.. In 1799, it would cost so much to mail a letter-- I don't know exactly, something like $10 or $20 to mail a letter at today's rate-- and it would take a long time get there.

在1799年，寄封信需要花费-,我也不清楚具体的数字,大概相当于现在的10到20块钱-,而且还要花很久才能送达。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

His eyes closed again and he was asleep for a long time.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

Now, for a long time in American scholarship and in American classrooms one of the deep mythologies about this whole story of the era of the American Civil War in the Old South is that the Old South's plantation economy was dying out.

在很长的一段时间中,美国学术界和美国课堂,对于这个时代内战前的南方历史,存有一个疑点,就是当时南方的种植园经济正在逐渐衰退

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And once lead gets into the soil, it stays a long time.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

and then you teach students and you do this for a very long time, all your life.

然后你就可以去教学生，这会是一个很长的过程，差不多你一生的时间。

教授的梦想 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Adobe can take a long time to dry and become hard.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

I mean, you've been banging on that pen for a long time and I don't understand why.

我是说，你一直用那支笔敲来敲去，我不明白为什么。

Would you please 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He sat there a long time thinking and thinking.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

That didn't work. Well they couldn't figure out what was wrong. And they spent a long time trying to debug the program.

调试这个程序,那时候当然不叫调试了,然后他们发现了问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So,to get a sense of what the regional moisture patterns have been, dryness and wetness over such a long period of time in great detail, I would call it a kind of victory for paleoclimate science."

VOA: special.2010.05.25

And archaeologists for a long time were convinced that they would find these destruction layers. But they were disappointed.

考古学家在很长一段时间都相信,他们能找到那些被摧毁的层面，但他们失望了。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"We believe since a long time that peace is possible and the vision of two states is the best thing.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

And she said, " "I don't think I've felt this way in a very long time."

她说，“我好久没有过这样的感觉了“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Seems very simple, but took Beethoven a long time to iron all this out and make this perfect melody, the prototypical melody in a way.

似乎很简单,但是花了贝多芬很长时间来琢磨,最后做出这段完美的旋律,这段典范旋律

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选