Scientists have long believed that Earth's satellite lacks the ability to hold water near its surface because it has no atmosphere.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

He anticipated this power much as his father, a reasonably well-to-do banker, might have anticipated long-term earnings from a particularly risky business venture.

他预测到他的力量，正如他的父亲，一个相当富有的银行家，能够预测到从一笔风险高的生意中,能获得多少长期利益一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

because I have to walk a really long way from the subway to get to the Yoga studio.

因为我从地铁到瑜伽工作室要走很长的一段路。

上东区的氛围 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And are any dorms open all year so international students can have a place to stay during long vacations?

VOA: special.2009.03.26

So it took a long time for the twenty books that we have to get settled on. And we'll talk about how that actually happened,also,still.

所以很长一段时间之后那27本书,才最终被确定下来，我们会谈及,那是如何实现的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

You might have to stay away from low-lying areas for as long as twenty hours after the first warning.

VOA: special.2011.06.07

So really, once we start writing more interesting programs, you would have to type out long annoying commands like that to just compile more sophisticated programs.

实际上，一旦我们开始写一些更复杂的程序时，你们可能要键入那样一些长的，讨厌的命令,来编译跟高级的程序。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But he agrees that in recent years, many companies have tied pay to short-term performance, instead of their long-term health.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

Well, as long as you mentioned your recent work, I wanted to get into, to make sure that we have a chance to talk about this important book.

既然您提到了您最近的著作，我们就借此机会,来谈一谈这本重要的书。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

American lawmakers have also long complained that China suppresses the value of the yuan to lower the price of its exports.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

But because the way sound waves operate, we have these low sound waves taking a very long time to clear.

但鉴于声波的传播方式,低声波要过更长的时间才消失

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It was a cancer. President Cleveland asked how long he could wait to have the cancer removed.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

If things didn't work out long term, they still have a spot for me I think if I want to go back and finish my MBA it's just not that high risk when you get right down to it.

如果长期下来不行的话，他们仍然偏爱我的话，我想我可以,回来读完工管硕士，实际去做的话困难并不大。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Beets much larger than that can be tough and have to be cooked for a long time.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

I'm not going to have you work long hours on difficult problems to be submitted and then graded.

我的作业不会让你们花费大量的时间,去钻研很难的问题，然后交上来让我打分。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

They would not have to make the long,costly voyage around the southern end of South America.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

How long do you have to be around a person to see him, to estimate how good a lecturer that person is?

你要看一个人多久，才能评估出他讲课有多好？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

But just to be really clear, I've written out exactly which equations you do have to memorize on the front here, so long as you know those, the rest you can just look up.

但是让大家清楚，我已经,把大家需要记住的公式都写在前面了，只要你知道了这些，其它的就只需要查了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And,she hopes that more travelers of all nationalities will see themselves as ambassadors who have a long term responsibility to the places they visit.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

So you don't have to write long papers, but what I'm saying is: the room is there for you to stretch out if you want to do that.

所以我的意思是：,有足够的空间留给你们发挥,如果你们想的话。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Home prices in western states have fallen a long way and have continued to fall.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

But they spent a lot of time, energy, and money on being sure that they would have a supply of water to hold them for a long siege.

他们花费了大量的时间,精力,和金钱来确保,在长期的围城中他们可以获得足够的水源

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Some small farmers have to travel long distances to have their animals killed and processed.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

And what I want to do now is illustrate a case study of what I mean by nature constrained and why it is so important for happiness, for wellbeing, for long-term success to have the constrained view of human nature when it comes to our psychology that is.

现在我想演示一个案例研究,说明我所谓的本性受约束的含义,为何它对快乐，幸福，长久的成功如此重要,当论及到我们的心理时,人性受约束观点很重要。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Farmers and gardeners have long used greenhouses to extend the growing season in cold weather.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

So we have a lot to go, a long way to go to get the same as here.

所以我们还有很长的路要走，才能变得和这里一样。

关于巴西 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

I think they may have to have a Basel III before too long because everything gets more and more complex in the world.

我认为不久就会推出第三次巴塞尔协议,因为世上万事都变得越来越复杂了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And the Lord said to Moses, "How long will this people spurn Me, and how long will they have no faith in Me despite all the signs that I have performed in their midst?

上帝对摩西说“这些人要藐视我到几时“,他们还要不相信我到几时,当我在他们中间显示了一切神迹以后？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选