"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

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“

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So, I've been in school for a very long time.

所以，我当学生已经当了许多年了。

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"I am from Turkey and right now I am attending Ferris State University and I decided to come to the United States mainly because I have been playing competitive Tennis for a very long time and my Tennis coaches mentioned to me that in the United States I would be able to get a scholarship and also get an education so that is the main reason I came to the United States so I can play really competitive Tennis and get my education."

VOA: standard.2009.12.14

And there was newspaper speach in that case so that's been an interest of mine for a very long time.

有报纸报道了这个事情,而这也是我长久以来关注的一个话题。

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It goes up, stays in the air for a very long time, but it falls on your head.

它先上升 在空中停留很长时间,但是它会直接落在头上

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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

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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

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They have been in China for a very long time.

他们来到中国有很长一段时间了。

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We are basically committed to each other for sex but it's very hard to make those relationships last a long time because we might not have anything in common, we might not share anything with each other, we might not trust each other, we are not particularly bonded to each other.

我们基本上只有激情的承诺,长时间维持这种关系很困难,因为可能双方没有任何共同点，没有共享的东西，我们可能互不信任，不是特别亲近。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Idealism is a position that's got a very long history in philosophy and for many classes would be worth taking a fair bit of time to consider more carefully.

唯心主义这个观点,在哲学史上占据了很长一段时间,并且值得我们花几节课,时间用心解读这个观点

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Now in the course of this, a student asked a very good question that I should have pointed out a long time ago, and that is: when an orchestra plays or an ensemble plays and they're looking at their music and they're reading their music, do they play a chord?

在这期间，我本该早就提起的，由一个学生提出的非常好的问题是，当管弦乐队演奏或合奏团演出时,他们各个盯着并读自己的那部分乐谱，他们奏出和弦了吗？

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Right. I have been interested in religion for a very long time, of course.

嗯，我对宗教感兴趣,已经有很长时间了。

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