For the best results, carrots should be grown in sandy soil that does not hold water for a long time.

VOA: special.2009.02.24

And the Aristotelian view held for a long time, but eventually it started to crumble in the light of more data.

而亚里士多德的观点在很长时间里得到了认同，但最终还是崩溃了,在越来越多的数据面前。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Let's say you are in an office, that's say, the doctor's office, and you're waiting a really long time.

假设你在一个医生的办公室等了很久。

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But a growing number of legal cases claim Toyota knew for a long time about the sudden acceleration issue with other vehicles.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

This is the world, particularly the legal world, catching up with where religious and cultural concepts have been for a very long time.

这就是这个世界，尤其是法律世界，向宗教和文化概念靠拢的地方,而后两者已存在很长时间了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He wrote a book about the final years in the political life of a long-time mayor of Boston,Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

It takes so long that by the time the spaceship comes back, 100 years will have gone by.

去了很久，以至于宇宙飞船回来的时候，100年都已经过去了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It is night time. And the only sound that can be heard is the long, lonely whistle coming from the train's engine.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

So he had a French tutor who lived with the family for a long time.

他有一个法语家庭教师，住了在他家很久。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Charles Darwin developed the theory of how living things develop from simpler organisms over long periods of time.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

President Karzai has for a very long time want to bring the Taliban into the main stream.

很长时间依赖卡尔扎伊总统,就想把塔利班分子拉回主流社会。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The two time periods tested whether people were more likely to act differently in the short term than in the long term.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

Sometimes the old aristocracy will be able to hold on for a very long time and to suppress any attempt to change things.

有时一些老贵族,会冥顽不灵,固执己见,试图遏止这些变革力量

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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

This says, if you want to be in the air for a long time, so you may think that 90 degrees is the best angle.

也就是说,如果你想在空中停留更久,你也许会认为 90°是最佳选择

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

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

He has data for a very long time period, 1802 to 2006, for the U.S.

他的数据是采用美国从1802年到2006年，相当长的一段时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In the old days, it took a long time to count the votes from the November elections.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

The antiquity of a law alone is no justification for its usage. Aristotle seems to reject you might say Burkean conservatism long before the time.

法律的古老性不能作为其用法的借口,亚里士多德似乎事先拒绝,你可能会说柏克式的保守主义,古老与传统并不能。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Long-time Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter announced he is leaving the Republicans to join the president's Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

It took a long time to get the guys there.

他们花了很长时间打到那

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

One critic calls it the first television show in a long time that is just plain fun.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

Well according to one school of thought ; there isn't anything particularly revolutionary about monotheism; and the classical account of the rise of monotheism, that has prevailed for a very long time, runs as follows, and I have a little flow chart here to illustrate it for you.

曾经某个思想学派告诉我们,一神论其实没有什么独特的新颖之处;,而它却能飞速崛起，备受重视，盛行了很长一段时间，正如我下面要提到的，我这儿有一些图来帮助你们理解。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2011.02.11

They can be on store shelves for a long period of time, and that has to do with the economics of food, especially food available to the poor, which we'll discuss later.

因此可以在商品货架上销售很长一段时间,这也与食物的经济学价值有关,特别这类食物穷人也买得起,这个我们以后会讨论

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The day was very hot, and Taylor stood for a long time in the burning sun.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

Well,De Gaulle has been dead for a very long time, and there has been progress, but what has not changed is still the power in Paris, in these ministries, to dictate the life of schools, of almost everything else.

戴高乐已经去世很久,在某些地方已经有所改进,但是巴黎的权利,政府各部门的权利仍未改变,他们规定校园生活,还有几乎其他任何事情

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The seventy-one year old cried tears of joy as she told the crowd the award was "a long time coming" but worth the wait.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

Now in the course of this, a student asked a very good question that I should have pointed out a long time ago, and that is: when an orchestra plays or an ensemble plays and they're looking at their music and they're reading their music, do they play a chord?

在这期间，我本该早就提起的，由一个学生提出的非常好的问题是，当管弦乐队演奏或合奏团演出时,他们各个盯着并读自己的那部分乐谱，他们奏出和弦了吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

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，

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