But he says taking the long view can help provide insights scientists might miss in a snapshot from a single moment in time.

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Well, you'll know when it crashes, that doesn't help you very much, but you can't always tell whether something's stuck in an infinite loop or whether it's simply taking a long time to compute.

好，你将学到它在什么时候会崩溃，这对你帮助并不大，但是你不能辨别出到底是在一个循环中,有什么东西卡住了呢,还是程序需要很长的时间来计算一个结果呢。

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And the cashier is taking a long time.

所以结账要等很长时间。

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But because the way sound waves operate, we have these low sound waves taking a very long time to clear.

但鉴于声波的传播方式,低声波要过更长的时间才消失

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Idealism is a position that's got a very long history in philosophy and for many classes would be worth taking a fair bit of time to consider more carefully.

唯心主义这个观点,在哲学史上占据了很长一段时间,并且值得我们花几节课,时间用心解读这个观点

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