There were people who spoke about the Greek race, or similar races, for quite a long time in the science of anthropology and subjects like that.

在人类学之类的学科中,有人曾讨论过,关于希腊的族裔或相近的族群的论题,并为此花费了许多的时间

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It affected me quite a bitbecause I was out of work for a long time after that.

它也对我影响很大，因为那个事件以后，我失业了很久。

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One of the big arguments that is part of this story is when did this development of new way of fighting come about; rather quickly, over a matter of a few years, or did it stretch out over quite a long time.

人们对此最大的争议就在于,这种新型战斗方式是何时为军队所用的,是在短短几年内迅速发展起来的呢,还是在很长的一段时间逐步形成的呢

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Now this was nineteen-eighty-two, quite a long time ago, at a time when people really weren't paying much attention to calories like they are now, so you'd expect the errors to decline as time goes on and there's some evidence of that, but they're errors nonetheless.

这是1982年的实验,很早之前了,当时的人们并不像今天的人们一样,那么关注卡路里,所以你会预计误差会随时间推移而减小,有证据证明了这一点,但误差仍然存在

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The board members have fourteen-year terms which is quite a long time.

小组成员有十四年的任期,确实是个很长的时间。

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I'm going to live here for, who knows how long. Quite a long time.

我打算定居在这儿，不知道多久。会是相当长一段时间。

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