I could not take my eyes from it. I looked at the photograph for some hours and then began working."

VOA: special.2010.05.31

We don't have the three hours this would take.

不过恐怕我们时间有限，没有三个小时。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Well, it's going to take me under three hours to get to Brussels.

去布鲁塞尔花了我不到三个小时。

方便的欧洲之星 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He says just choosing a jury even for the simplest trials can often take two or three hours.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

Take an atom that after 24 hours hasn't broken down.

如果一个原子在二十四小时内没有分裂的话

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

And you can't... If the brain was wired up like a personal computer, it would take you four hours to recognize a face, but in fact, we could do things extremely quickly.

你无法,如果大脑是像个人电脑那样组装起来的话,那你识别出一张面孔就得花上四个小时,但事实上,我们能够非常迅速地完成某些事情

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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

And so very often I would find myself with gigabytes worth of data, at night I needed to analyze this data and look for this patterns and frankly the reality was sometimes I could spend 10-15 minutes whipping up a little script, a little program that unfortunately would take eight hours or more to run.

我经常会发现十亿字节的数据,晚上我就需要分析这些数据并,找出模型，坦白说，有时,我会花10-15分钟来编写一个小脚本，一个小程序,但不幸的是，运行它可能需要8个小时或更多时间。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It can take from twenty minutes to more than two hours for them all to leave.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

The reason--unless you can take about eight hours to do it--because, the way you're going to do it is you're going to take a train that goes one hour and fifty-eight minutes to Paris, and then you're going to take another train that zips down here in about four hours to Bordeaux, but you're paying by kilometer.

除非你想坐八个小时的火车,因为,你要走的路是,坐上火车,先花一小时五十八分钟去巴黎,然后以很快的速度用四小时到这儿,波尔多,按公里计费

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

It will take you a few hours longer to do this, but it is safer."

VOA: special.2010.06.26

In William James, maybe the case-- because the elevator-- it does take two hours to get there for the door to close.

在William，James大厅也许会遇到这种事-,因为那部电梯-,运作得太慢。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

He says a reattachment operation can take many hours.

VOA: special.2011.02.02

How many hours do the students take classes usually?

学生们通常上几小时的课？

很好奇住宿生活 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It can take several hours before the gas disappears.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

Let's create a graph here that on the x axis it's going to be time, so time zero will be when you first take in a food and then one hour later, two hours later will be shown as you go from left to right, and then we'll have blood glucose level up on the y axis.

我们在这建立一个曲线图,X轴代表的是时间,所以零时间点是你第一次进食的时间,然后一小时以后,两小时以后,是从左到右呈现在图表上的,在Y轴上是你的血糖值

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Then,it can take a team of 10 people several hours to unload a shipment of five M-ATVs.

VOA: standard.2010.08.01

"The miscreants take the best advantage of the relaxed curfew hours and move around and either escape or enhance their positions or strengthen the area,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

Abbas says this is why the military continues to lift curfews a few hours a day in some places to allow civilians to flee before troops take more aggressive action.

VOA: standard.2009.05.12