"What I would like for the country and everybody to know is that with the age of the computer, it takes time for us to try to keep up with the computer but if some people would start writing again, and sending their bills by mail, maybe it could ease a little of the burden as far as the financial difficulties that we are in."

VOA: standard.2010.04.13

OK. In the length of time it takes for the light to get from that bulb to the table, this machine processes two operations.

好，在灯光从灯泡到,桌子的这段时间内，电脑已经进行了两次运算了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It takes ordinarily it takes for 5 years in the peace time conditions to set up any kind of army.

在和平时期，一般要5年时间才能建立一个军队。

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Henderson says that is another reason why it takes long time for him to build a guitar.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Well, because it takes some time for these cellular events that I mentioned earlier to happen.

因为我之前提及的细胞活动,需要一些时间完成

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Besides the actual performance, they look at how long it takes the soldiers to complete their tasks, since time can make the difference between survival or death for those who are lucky enough to be alive after the nuclear blast.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

So in other words, every time I merge the point that I kept emphasizing verbally there and that I'm only touching each number once, means that we have to account for the amount of time it takes to merge N which is going to be just N. Now, this is again one of these cyclical answers.

换言之，之前在做合并时,我不停地强调,对每个数字我只碰了一次，这就是说,我们要记录合并所花的时间量,也就是这里的,这又是一种循环性的答案。

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Remember last time, I said that there's different kinds of complexity in our code, and I suggested for simple branching programs, the amount of time it takes to run that program is, in essence, bounded by the number of instructions, because you only execute each instruction at most once.

但是这里有个很重要的点,记得上节课，我提过在我们的代码中，有不同种类的复杂度，而且我还说了对于简单的分支程序,运行这种程序需要的总体时间,大体上，是和指令的数目相关的,因为每个指令只会被执行最多一次。

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But cutting is something fearful and forceful; it's a kind of controlled violence. Frost takes it for granted that we will remember that the scythe is a conventional image for time, which harvests all of us in death.

但是割草是很有力的也是很可怕的;,这是一种控制中的蛮力，弗罗斯特认为,我们将把镰刀作为时代的产物记住，镰刀一直收获直到我们死去。

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In the time it takes for one cell division to occur, it could be that this cell entraps a different chemical composition of the cytoplasm then this entraps, and that's a well known concept.

当一个细胞分裂发生期间,很可能这个细胞截留了一种不同的,细胞质化学组分,这种非对称分裂是一个广为人知的概念

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Or you get a cold, the cold virus takes hold, the viruses start replicating inside of you and it takes some time for immune system to gear up to eliminate it, so we're used to thinking about responses that take some time.

或者你得了感冒,感冒病毒扎根在你的身体中,病毒开始在你体内复制,免疫系统需要一定时间做好准备去消灭它,所以我们曾认为免疫反应需要一定时间

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