For the best results, carrots should be grown in sandy soil that does not hold water for a long time.

VOA: special.2009.02.24

For a long, long time the general wisdom was there were not heavy casualties in hoplite battles -- people calculating on what I was just talking about.

长期以来的共识是,方阵战不会造成大规模的伤亡,人们相信这一点

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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

Parson Walker's wife was very sick once, for a long time, and it seemed as if they were not going to save her.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

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

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

Never go back. Find another. Leave at once. Go for a long trip again, but this time we'll go wherever I want, won't we?" I nodded. My Lolita.

绝不会去，另找一所学校，马上走，再去长途旅行，不过这次去我想去的地方，好吗？“我点头，我的洛丽塔。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.06.14

Clearly, important information is to be conveyed to students from people who settle in the fields for a long period of time.

显然，对某个领域,进行长时间研究的学者,会将重要的信息,传达给学生。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

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

I had worked with the president for a long time, by the time I became the WHCS.

在我成为办公室主任前,我已经为总统，工作了很长的时间。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Anybody If you have withdrawals after eating a certain type of food for a long time.

有人回答吗,当你长期吃某种食品,某天你不吃了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.05.10

The fourth is war, and we got peace movements in American history and anti-war fervor and ferment, of all kinds, for a very long time.

第四点是战争,我们美国历史上的和平运动,酝酿的反战情绪,诸此种种,由来已久了

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Johnsy lay for a long time, looking at it.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Let's say oftentimes orchestral musicians, they're sitting there and they're not playing so they have to be able to count for a long period of time.

时常,管弦乐团的乐手们坐在那里,却不需要演奏,因此他们不得不打很长一段时间的拍子

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

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

Among the things that are lost for a long time, there is writing.

在长期遗失的事物中,包括文字材料

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"It will for a long time, at least while I am alive. And it is not just trucks and heavy machinery.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

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

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

The rate and pace of change in the industry is such that it's always kind of a jump ball environment where companies are not able to hang on to a great position for a super long time.

这一行变化的速度,就是这样,总处于一种跳球环境中,公司不能,永远处于不败之地。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

President Karzai says ambitious plans for a large, modern Afghan army are simply more than the country can afford for a long time.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

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

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