They found that people with the normal length of the gene were better able to weather life's storms.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Well, if this thing is going to vibrate for any length of time it better be a standing wave.

好的，如果它在任意时间振动,那它就是驻波。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

You can use it to describe or to ask questions about distance, about a length of something.

你可以用它来询问路程或者东西的长度。

How long课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But Dr.Brown says fingertips are not often reattached if they are the length of a fingernail or shorter.

VOA: special.2011.02.02

Therefore, for simple branching programs, the length of time, the complexity the code, is what we would call constant.

因此，对于简单的分支程序，运行的时间长度，算法的复杂度，也就是我们说的常数。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The Doppler effect explains changes in the length of light waves or sound waves as they move toward you or away from you.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

So 1.1 times 10 to the -31 meters is not, in fact, a significant number when we're comparing it, for example, to the length of a ball, or the size of the baseball field.

所以1，1乘以10的负31次方米，事实上并不是一个很重要的数字，举例来说，当它与一个球的长度，或者一块棒球场地对比时。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But,the lead climber can only do this for about twenty-five meters, the length of the climbing ropes.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

So,as the vaccine was passed from arm to arm, it became less potent, and the length of protection that it would give you varied.

所以当疫苗从一个人传给另一个人之后,它的防治效力会减弱,它带给人的免疫期限也会改变

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

With Vicksburg in Union hands, the North could control the whole length of the river.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

And in this context, the length of that array is stored in Arg C. Well, let's take a look at a slight variance of this that reveals further what we can do and reveals what a string really is.

关于这点，那个数组的长度被存储在ArgC中,好的，让我们看看这个轻微的变化,那个揭示了我们可以做的,和字符串实际上是什么。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Mister Weindruch says researchers do not know why reducing calories increases the length of life.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

By regular rate we mean that the amount of time that each chord holds is exactly the same; every chord holds for the same length of time.

如果变化频率规则，那么和声中每个和弦持续的时间长度是完全相同的;,每个和弦都持续同样长的时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

How quickly this can happen depends on the length of time a person is breathing the gas and the amount of the gas he or she breathes in.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

If you drop the arrow, it's the usual convention, if you're talking about the length of the vector A.

如果你把箭头去掉,就表示矢量 A 的模长,这是约定俗成的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

This limits the number and length of summer and fall shoots.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

How long" can be used in a question and it refers to a length of time or a length of distance.

How long” 句型用于问句中，用来询问时间或距离的长短。

How long课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But the length of treatment depends on the problem.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

But there's more, and this is why novels are long: - not too long, not too short, but of a certain length-- of a certain magnitude, as Aristotle puts it.

但是当然还有很多别的东西，要不这本书也不会那么长：,不是太长，但也不短，刚刚好能说明清楚问题的长度-,亚里士多德这么评价。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Is there meaning in the length of a finger?

VOA: special.2009.02.25

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

the average length of treatment is about five years.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

And if I'm walking down the list, this is probably order of the length of the list s because I'm looking at each element once.

这可能大概就是数组的长度，因为我会遍历数组中的每个元素一次,现在你可能会想，等等，数组已经排好序了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Seki's 442nd Regimental Combat Team became the most decorated unit in US military history for its size and length of service.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

So it's certainly at least linear in the length of the list. For each starting point, what do I do?

它至少是线性的计算列表的长度,每次到了循环开始的点？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Bdi says that though this is an essential step, the length of this review period should be limited.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

You can see from trigonometry and the length of the vector I'm going to call by A.

可以用三角的知识,然后我把矢量的模长记为 A

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

But there is real reluctance about the depth and breadth and the length of the commitment,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

The result of this process if this replication went down the whole length of the DNA would be to form two identical, double stranded DNA molecules.

如果复制过程在整条链上持续进行的话,将生成两条完全一样的,双链DNA分子

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

So strlen is the length of a string.

所以strlen就是字符串的长度。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选