Adobe can take a long time to dry and become hard.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

You had to be very confident because it was going to take a long time, a fantastic amount of labor, a tremendous amount of money to do that.

你不得不相信,建造一座蜂巢墓要花费很长时间,大量的劳动力,以及庞大的金钱支持

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

You're asked to take a long walk in the park with your parents. And you're just saying,

你还得陪父母到公园里散步。你这时会感慨道，

I like课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"This was a first and therefore you had to deal with his absurd and vile policies and the analysis of them had to take a long time and you had to get right down deep into him and how he thought,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

You could think, you have to think earnings are going to go up twelve-fold to get it down to four times earnings, which will take a long, long time.

你可能会想，你必然认为收益会上涨12倍,让它回落到四倍于原来收益的地方，会花费很长一段时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Anders Wilhelmson says the sanitation process can take as little as a couple of hours or as long as two to four weeks.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

Here is the pitch in--of--a string an octave higher so you can see it this way. As you probably know, if you take a long string and pluck it, it's going to take that long string a long time to pass that sort of cycle, if you will, just one pass through that cycle.

这也是个音高,一个高八度的音弦,你可以这样这样看 你们可能知道,如果你拨动长弦,长弦要经过很长时间,才能完成一个震动周期,如果你想,可以尝试下

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

American officials say it will take at least two years for what one official called a meaningful measure of progress toward long-term stability.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

But it's going to take a long time, I think.

虽然这会花费很长的一段时间。

观众是我的动力 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The roads are good, a driver can see far -- and a trip hundreds of kilometers long can take just a few hours.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Said a different way, in the case of the straight-line programs, how long would it take to run a program?

换种说法，在直线式程序里面，运行一个程序要多长时间？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They will have to tell how long and how much it would take to pay off a card if the holder makes only the lowest monthly payment.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

As long as it was not abrupt, right? I may take my scissors, and cut out a foot in the middle.

这个过程并不是突然的，对吗？，我拿出一把剪刀，这时减掉中间的一英尺。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"It took us a long time to get here. It is going to take some time for us to work through this.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

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

It didn't take long for Easton to land an audition at Universal Music Group, which led to a recording deal with Mercury Nashville.

VOA: standard.2010.04.09

The way we're going to model differentiated products is to imagine, just to take a simple example, imagine a city and this city has one long straight road through it.

我们建立差异产品模型的方法,想象一下,举个简单的例子,想象一个被一条直路贯穿的城市

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The hope is that it will not take too long, for fear a power vacuum could develop.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

And again it doesn't always take a very long time.

而且不用很久。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Here,the travelers can stay a few nights and eat a good meal, while they take a brief respite from their long and dangerous journey north.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Well, you can't adopt the policy of "I'm going to wait for this pig to dance " and when it does I'm going to reinforce it" because it's going to take you a very long time.

那么，你就不能说,“我要等这头猪跳舞,然后再对它进行强化“,因为这会花掉你很长的时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"What we are seeing China is that wages are gradually converging to those levels in the U.S.and Europe, but this convergence is going to take a very long time."

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

.. In 1799, it would cost so much to mail a letter-- I don't know exactly, something like $10 or $20 to mail a letter at today's rate-- and it would take a long time get there.

在1799年，寄封信需要花费-,我也不清楚具体的数字,大概相当于现在的10到20块钱-,而且还要花很久才能送达。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"And it's a tough mission, but I think it is an attainable mission as long as we take the time to make sure that the mission is out there and laid out pretty well.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

With simple branching, how long is it going to take to run a piece of code?

但是在简单分支程序中，执行一个程序,要多长时间呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It seems to me rather a long distance from the thought, nobody can die for me,nobody can take my part, to the claim,everybody dies alone.

对我来说，没有人能够代替他人死亡，这说法离每个人都是孤独而死这说法，还有好一段距离。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I'm accessing a list. How long does it take for me to get the nth element of a list?

我取得数组的第N个元素,需要多长时间呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

You may take on a long-term project and then die before you've been able to complete it; or alternatively, you may peak too soon and then continue to stick around in an anti-climactic way.

你可能承担了一个长期的项目,然后在你能完成之前就死了，或者，你可能太快达到人生高峰,然后继续在平淡中徘徊。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选