Later,I got a telephone call from a friend whom I had not seen in a long time.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

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

Well,De Gaulle has been dead for a very long time, and there has been progress, but what has not changed is still the power in Paris, in these ministries, to dictate the life of schools, of almost everything else.

戴高乐已经去世很久,在某些地方已经有所改进,但是巴黎的权利,政府各部门的权利仍未改变,他们规定校园生活,还有几乎其他任何事情

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Calhoun said that for a long time he had believed that the dispute over slavery -- if not settled -- would end in disunion.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

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

But he said Israel would not agree in advance to Syria's long-time demand to withdraw from the strategic Golan Heights.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26