No one knew if they could get the spacecraft back to Earth, or if they could survive long enough to return.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.

树林边静悄悄，只有一点声音，那是我的长镰在对大地低语。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Maybe not the biggest one, but there was one when I was... I hadn't long been in the job.

可能不是最大的一次，但是有一场火灾，当我……当时我刚工作不久。

退休的消防员叔叔 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One is the long-distance transport of bees for pollination and the spread of bee diseases from one area to another.

VOA: special.2011.05.24

One of the things you could imagine is just try it on and input, see how long it takes.

你们想出来的方法只是可能就是通过,输入来试试，看运行时间会有多长。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

To keep himself awake as he flew east during the long night, Post tied a piece of string to one finger.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

One is long term, making them compatible with the body so that you could tolerate it for long term.

一个是如何能做到长期使用,人工心脏要与身体相匹配,身体才能长期耐受

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

One hoodoo known as the Poodle looks like a poodle dog sitting on top of a long narrow rock.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Did I say that right? One of the misfortunes of scholarship, you have to live long enough to get your accolades.

我说的对吧，学术界的一大损失，你活得够长才能获得所应得的荣誉。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

There are also two Japanese swords, one long and one short, that were made in the fourteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

So what I'm saying now is it took a long time for this to solidify. And one of the things we think made it solidify was the development of codices,a codex.

所以这花了很长一段时间,才得以统一，我们觉得,使它统一的是抄本的出现。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

They say their findings offer one reason why the custom of cursing may have continued for so long.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

Milton, who is writing at the present moment of December of 1629, is claiming the capacity to arrive at a moment in history that he has already described as a long-completed one.

这首诗作于1629年12月，这时弥尔顿正在慢慢具备他达到历史性时刻的能力,而这时他也已经被这样称赞着。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He began to work on one of his long-time dreams - opening a sports center for the young people of San Juan.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

You can see them in the sopranos and altos up there and they just sit there on that pitch--a long note: one, two, three, four.

你可以在高音与中音区看到他们,而且他们一直留在那个音高上,一个长音符,一,二,三,四

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

But no one has the answer to how much market share Bing will claim from Yahoo or Google in the long term.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

It's true, these questions have been debated for a very long time but the very fact that they have recurred and persisted may suggest that though they're impossible in one sense, they're unavoidable in another.

诚然，这些问题争论已久,但正因为这些问题反复出现,也许表明，虽然在某种意义上它们无法解决，但另一种意义上，却又无可避免。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

There could be two more. No one knew how long Kentucky and Missouri would remain in the Union.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Now, for a long time in American scholarship and in American classrooms one of the deep mythologies about this whole story of the era of the American Civil War in the Old South is that the Old South's plantation economy was dying out.

在很长的一段时间中,美国学术界和美国课堂,对于这个时代内战前的南方历史,存有一个疑点,就是当时南方的种植园经济正在逐渐衰退

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Professor Kaufman says it could take the slow-growing coral as long as one hundred years to recover.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

but in that time, I'm hoping to set up my life such that one day, in the long term,

但长期以来，我希望有一天能够掌握自己的生活，

事业和人生都重要 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

For example, one American astronaut on a four-month long mission on the Russian space station Mir saw a vision of his dead father.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

Here's one climbing out of the pool: First her face appeared, long and cadaverous, with a bandage-like bathing cap coming down almost to her eyes, and sharp teeth protruding from her mouth.

有一个女人从游泳池中出来了，首先是她的脸，修长,而惨白，如绷带般的泳帽从她的头部,耷拉到她的眼睛，锋利的牙齿从她的口中突出。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It had a high,sharply angled ceiling and many windows lining the walls of its one long,narrow room.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

The classical hoplite formation then was not the long lived military institution of scholarly tradition, but merely one phase in a history of almost four centuries of slow change towards ever denser and more cohesive heavy infantry formations."

这种方阵的形成,并不是经过长期传承的传统军事制度,只是步兵阵型演变的一个阶段,战阵逐渐向更加紧密坚固的步兵阵型转化,而这个变化持续了约有四个世纪"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The twenty-two meter long rocket would put a little scientific satellite into orbit as one of the events of the international geophysical year.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

No, instead we have to click other amount at bottom right there, when we have to input 4-0-0 in this screen 4-0-0 after consulting visually the little cheat sheet on the device itself it tells you in a very long chart how much one pass costs so we multiply and type in 4-0-0, we hit enter.

不，然而我们必须点击,右下边的这个，当我们需要在这个屏幕上,输入0,通过咨询那个设备上小说明,它在一个很长的图表上,告诉你，每一站需要多少钱，我们加起来,输入了4-0-0，点击输入。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The last time the United States Education Department asked young people how long they took to finish college was in two thousand one.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

You prove to your teacher that you understand the authors by being able to put their meaning in other words -in other words, to say the author is intending to say something, not just that the text says something and this is what it says, with your exam then being one long screed of quotation.

你们用自己的话写出文章的含义,以此向老师证明你们理解作者的意图,换句话说，要告诉老师作者想表达什么，而不仅仅是文本说的什么内容，然后在试卷上来一大段,冗长的引用。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The period, that's right. So, it's going to take one period to move that long. And another way 1 we can say period is just 1 over nu or 1 over the frequency So, now we know both the distance traveled and the time the elapsed.

还是？周期，对的,它需要一个周期的时间,另一种说法是周期是,除以nu，也就是1除以频率,现在我们同时知道了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选