This wall may work as well and last as long but it is not as pleasing to look at as the one built by hand.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

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

The very presence in a theatrical piece of a long and weighty philosophical debate like this one could easily be seen as having a pretty tedious effect.

很容易看出这样一个戏剧般长篇,而有分量的哲学争论,有着令人厌倦的作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This meant creating a tunnel more than one-and-one half kilometers long.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

This is one of a long list of experiments that we can't do anymore.

这只是众多实验中的一个而已,我们没时间讲其他的了。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Through our collaborative efforts, and year-long investigation, this public official pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to import more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana into the United States, while at the same time receiving more than $5 million in bribe payments."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

How long does it take to go one round in this fashion?

质点绕圆一周需要多久

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The way we're going to model differentiated products is to imagine, just to take a simple example, imagine a city and this city has one long straight road through it.

我们建立差异产品模型的方法,想象一下,举个简单的例子,想象一个被一条直路贯穿的城市

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

This particular one is about 16 inches long.

这把琴大约是十六英寸长

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

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

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

London, already by the late sixteenth century, one-sixth of all the people, I think this is E.A. Wrigley who pointed this out a long time ago--one-sixth of all the people in England went to London frequently, because London was absolutely gigantic as a city.

伦敦,早在十六世纪后期,六分之一的人口,我想是E.A莱格力很久以前给出的这个数据,他指出,当时有六分之一的英国人,会经常去伦敦,因为伦敦当时是个巨型城市

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选