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

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