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

It took a long time, but he succeeded.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

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

But chronic pain can last a long time.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

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

But he said Israel would not agree in advance to Syria's long-time demand to withdraw from the strategic Golan Heights.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

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

He will continue with chemotherapy for some time, but he feels well and takes long walks with his family.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

It's the time in which but it's the time in which long distance commerce began to take hold, because of transportation revolutions: canals, roads, railroads in particular.

它是一个时期,这是一个远距离商业开始产生影响的时代,主要原因便是运输方式的革新,运河,公路,特别是铁路

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But Obame is unlikely to emerge as the leading opposition contender because long-time challenger Pierre Mamboundou remains in the race.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

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

"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

It might bend and bow, that is it's not the forces of nature like the movement of the river that's knocking the bridge down, but it's just the failure of these materials over time, that they don't last as long as they might.

这桥可能会折断,不一定是洪水这样的自然灾害,导致了桥梁的坍塌,可能只是因为建桥的材料老化,这种材料没有那么持久耐用

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

but in that time, I'm hoping to set up my life such that one day, in the long term,

但长期以来，我希望有一天能够掌握自己的生活，

事业和人生都重要 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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 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

"There is still support, but at the same time, there is growing desire to know how long this support should continue and the result."

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

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

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