But such fast trains would take a long time to put in place in the United States.

VOA: special.2011.02.11

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

I don't know if you know this, but for a long time when movies took place in New York,

我不清楚你是否知道，很长一段时间，电影里发生在纽约的场景，

电影里的中央车站 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The seventy-one year old cried tears of joy as she told the crowd the award was "a long time coming" but worth the wait.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

But for a long time I was chastened whenever I remembered that my mother had come close to killing me.

然而很长一段时间里,一想起母亲过来揍我,我就会很听话，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But politics is (takes) a long, long time to make any significant, long-lasting difference."

VOA: special.2010.05.09

It's very unlikely any of you would either but they go a long time without food, suggesting they do not want to cause this other chimpanzee pain.

你们也不会,但它们忍了很长时间才吃，这表明它们不想造成另一个黑猩猩受苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

You'll be kept in prison for a long time.'" But in reality,there is help.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

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

But chronic pain can last a long time.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

Yeah it goes back to a long time in my life, but most immediately to my own graduate career, which I went to several different schools.

这说来话长了，就近而言，这跟我所任职的研究生院有关，我在不同的大学任职。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It took a long time, but he succeeded.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

But because the way sound waves operate, we have these low sound waves taking a very long time to clear.

但鉴于声波的传播方式,低声波要过更长的时间才消失

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"Insurgencies last a long time." "But,as you look at how long it took to turn Iraq around, it was about 18 months.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

The crucial point here for us is that immortality means not just living a very long time or even an extraordinarily long time, but literally living forever.

这里至关重要的一点是永生,不仅意味着生存很长一段时间,甚至极其漫长的一段时间，而是指永远生存下去。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But this morning, for the first time in a long time, a few of the trees were green.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

If they're failing they should cut their dividend, but companies are reluctant to do that because it looks bad, so they hold off for a long time, not cutting.

如果效益不好他们应该减少红利,但是公司不愿意这样做,是因为这样显得很糟糕,所以他们一直拖延着不去减少红利

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But he says taking the long view can help provide insights scientists might miss in a snapshot from a single moment in time.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

Well, it's a long time ago but it was elementary school, you know, maybe 3rd grade, 4th grade,

那是很久以前的事情了，应该是小学时候吧，那大概是三年级或者四年级，

美国的博物馆教育 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But corruption,unfortunately, has been a big part of the Mexican political system for a very long time."

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

But I feel the same thing often when my son brings his friends, maybe that I've known for a long time.

但我也感觉得到,尤其是我儿子带朋友回来时，也许我早认识了。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Looking back,she adds, "I know 50 years is a long time, but when you're doing something you really love, you don't think about the years."

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

But you don't want to have to run it a long time, every time you have a hypothesis.

但是你不必每次有一个假设，都要去运行很长时间。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But Voice of America Persian Service has been there for a long time.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

This was known for a long time, but it took Mr. Einstein to figure out why nature is behaving in that fashion.

这一点在很早以前就人所共知了,不过是爱因斯坦先生解释了,大自然为什么以这种模式运行

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

But as several analysts have stressed "eventually" can be a very long time.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

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

"What we are seeing China is that wages are gradually converging to those levels in the U.S.and Europe, but this convergence is going to take a very long time."

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

It used to be the case-- I forget how long drive-in windows have been around, certainly as long as you guys can remember-- but there was a time when drive-in windows didn't exist.

曾经是这样的情况,我忘了免下车餐厅已经出现多久了,当然可能自打你们记事时就出现了,但是在免下车餐厅尚未出现的时候

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It's kind of unsettling because we like to know what things are, but at the same time it's not really a big problem because as long as we know about the fact that a certain notion of literature exists in certain communities we can begin to do very interesting work precisely with that idea.

可能会有点让人不安，因为我们总想知道事物的定义，但知不知道,实际上问题不大,只要我们知道在特定群体中对文学有特定的认识,我们就能在这种认识上做文章。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选