But such fast trains would take a long time to put in place in the United States.

VOA: special.2011.02.11

But I don't really know about how long it would take people to hack, like, the general firewall

但我不知道人们具体要用多长时间才能穿过防火墙，

理想是当密码专家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And the obvious question I could start with is, and suppose I ask you, how long does the algorithm implemented by this program take to run?

我开始这个话题的第一个问题是，假设我问你，由这个算法实现的程序大概,要运行多久才能给出答案？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.08.10

The take-aways are that an equity bias is an absolutely sensible underpinning for investors with long time horizons but that diversification is important.

对于长期投资者来说,股权偏好的存在,是长期投资获利的重要基础,但是分散投资也很重要

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

As time increases, the angle increases and we can ask, "How long does it take for the particle to come back to the starting point?"

这个角度随着时间在增加,我们会问,"质点需要多长时间,才能转到起点"

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

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

The Final will not be held in the exam period, because I like to take long vacations.

期末考试不会拖到考试周,因为长假的魅力实在太大

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Visitors who choose not to take long walks can leave the small bus at different stops.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

How long does it take for the population of cells to double?

一组细胞的倍增时间是多久呢

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But it did not take long for the health care meeting to become heated.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

The how long will it take you diets?

还有关于节食周期的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory...

VOA: special.2011.06.02

Couldn't it still be the case that as long as we take into account the importance of getting the right kinds of pleasures, then really pleasure is what it's all about and all that it's about? No, I think that's still not right.

它还说得通吗？,当我们考虑,正确的快乐的重要性时，那才是真正的快乐,而且仅为快乐？，不，我认为那还是不对。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

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

Long-period comets,however, may take several hundred years to orbit the sun.

VOA: special.2011.02.09

Lisp The problem with that technique, while it's very general, is how long does it take me to find the i'th element of the list?

很多编程语言包括，都是用了这种技术,这个问题就是，当数组很大的时候？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Officials say the improvements could take as long as two years.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

The algorithm doesn't know that it's going to take this long to compute, it's just busy crunching away, trying to see if it can make it happen.

这很可能会发生，但是你知道的,算法本身并不知道，计算这个问题需要多长的时间，它就一直忙碌的算啊算。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And mixed economic signals continue to call into question how long it will take for the country to emerge from recession.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

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

Why did it take so long to realize that released prisoners were involved in the planning of this?

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

How long does it take me to find the k'th element? Linear. Because I've got to walk my way down it. OK? So in this case, you have linear access. Oh fudge knuckle.

线性的！因为我得从头,向下走一步步走,所以这里是线性访问，哦，有问题了吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

That's not a scientific term but the same psychologists were interested in studying how quickly you can-- if at all how long does it take to figure out somebody's sexual orientation?

这不是一个科学术语,这两位心理学家也很有兴趣研究,你能多快…,如果对方真的是同性恋,就能猜出他们的性取向？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But Sinclair-Thompson adds it is unclear how long it may take the airline industry to recover.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Congress will take its annual long recess in August, and Democrats hope to use the time to build support for health-care reform around the country.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

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