The piano players played the songs all day long to interested singers and other performers.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

The algorithm doesn't know that it's going to take this long to compute, it's just busy crunching away, trying to see if it can make it happen.

这很可能会发生，但是你知道的,算法本身并不知道，计算这个问题需要多长的时间，它就一直忙碌的算啊算。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And yeah, it takes a long time to get good at it. A lot of fitness, too. A lot of working out.

要想划得熟练需要时间。体能也要好。再加上大量的锻炼。

MIT赛艇选手 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

President Grant did not wait long to use his powers under the new law.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

I don't want to spend the whole weekend implementing just a little pop up calendar and frankly it probably would take at least that long to get something that's as interactive and dynamic as something like this that works across all browsers and so forth.

我并不想花费整个周末的时间来实现,这样一个小的弹出式日历，而且,可能至少还要花那么多时间，从而使它,能够在所有浏览器上都能有良好的交互性并且是,动态的，等等。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Farmers may think trees will take too long to grow and be effective.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

It took it too long to generate the output.

或者更可能的是。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I judged it would have took too long to make so many."

VOA: special.2010.03.21

There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.

树林边静悄悄，只有一点声音，那是我的长镰在对大地低语。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It takes two times as long to get back up.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

He done gone off with a woman and made me come but she ain't going to stay for long."

他和一个女人跑了,不过那个女人也不会跟他待多久的“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It didn't take long to convince Pinetop to record an album with his close friend and collaborator Willie "Big Eyes" Smith.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Did I say that right? One of the misfortunes of scholarship, you have to live long enough to get your accolades.

我说的对吧，学术界的一大损失，你活得够长才能获得所应得的荣誉。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Why did it take so long to realize that released prisoners were involved in the planning of this?

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

It's this kind of wealth that allow them to fight this long, hard war of independence, which they finally win.

这些所带来的财富,就成了他们为之奋斗的原动力,使得他们在艰苦的独立战争中获得胜利

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Kadyrov says Chechens traveled long to see the end of the operation, plus they lost everything of value, and paid dearly for peace, stability and prosperity.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

So I don't know if it Does it matter what you say to babies as long as you say something.

所以我想知道,是不是只要你对婴儿说话就行,说话的内容并不重要

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Kingston says the company waited too long to respond to the problems.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

But rather, the best thing I suppose would be to be able to live as long as you wanted.

我想最好的情况,是想活多久就能活多久。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It does not take long to use up these supplies, She says.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

So what I'm saying now is it took a long time for this to solidify. And one of the things we think made it solidify was the development of codices,a codex.

所以这花了很长一段时间,才得以统一，我们觉得,使它统一的是抄本的出现。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"President Obama visited our area this week, and it was my hope that he would listen,really listen, to what the people are saying, I have been in Congress 16 months, but it does not take that long to figure out that Washington does more talking than listening."

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

So, similarly in a case where instead we have a small energy difference, we're going to have a low frequency, which means that we're going to have a long wavelength here.

在这个例子里,能量差较小,我们得到的频率低,这意味这它的波长更长。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The rain harvesting systems mean that a family member no longer has to walk long distances to get water.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

What is was, they went to areas of Paris like Belleville, which is in the northeast, which had long been assumed to be a radical place.

事实上,他们冲到位于巴黎东北部的,贝勒维尔地区,那里长期以来都被认为是激进的地区

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

No one knew if they could get the spacecraft back to Earth, or if they could survive long enough to return.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

So far Plato believes, is a passionate or spirited aspect of nature remains strong so long will be necessary to educate the warriors of society who defend it.

到目前为止,柏拉图相信，如果激情或意志层面的人性,维持强烈的话,就必需,教育保卫社会的战士。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"So the long battle to stop the leak and contain the oil is finally close to coming to an end."

VOA: special.2010.08.07

So what's going to form the backbone is this continual link, phosphate to sugar, phosphate to sugar, phosphate to sugar, all linked together to form one long, long molecule.

主链是由这样重复的连接构成的,从磷酸到戊糖,周而复始,所有这些连接起来构成一个长链分子

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Now we've been charting for a couple of weeks now Milton's long-standing project to purge his lips of secular interests and to cleanse his literary consciousness of the tempting influence of secular literary voices, and one of those voices is obviously Shakespeare's.

现在我们已经讨论了几个星期了,弥尔顿长期坚持的项目像净化世俗利益,净化世俗的文学看法的影响,对他文学意识诱惑，其中有一个看法显然是莎士比亚的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选