It took a number of years before Congress was able to pass a law demanding a literacy test for immigrants.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

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

For example, if you go to interview, it took... you start from nine until four,

比如，如果你去面试，它花费……你会从早上九点开始到下午四点结束，

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She was in Paris. Some of her stories were never used because it took too long for them to reach the magazine.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

It's true of Windows, it's true of the Sequel Databases from guys like Oracle, the Google guys were at it for a number of years before that thing really took off.

视窗“系统就是这样，甲骨文公司的关系数据库也是这样，谷歌公司的创立者花了很多年,才让一切走上正轨。

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

Yet,it took some time for the team to confirm that the amino acid glycine came from space.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

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

It took the astronauts more than three hours to complete the preparations for leaving the lander.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Same story for sophomore, same story for junior year, I finally took it senior year because they wouldn't get another chance even though it still doesn't fit in the workload ha ha.

大二，大三都是如此，最后我到大四才来上这门课,因为即使学业再忙,再不选就没有机会了，哈哈。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He says it took a few years for Ug99 to show its destructive power.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

But nevertheless, let's just go with this for a minute, and if we suppose that it took about a generation to enter the land so you see, I've done the math on the side here.

无论如何，我们还是要稍微讨论一下，假设，进入这块土地要一代人的努力,你看，我已经在这边做了算术。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I once landed on my face. I soon learned that it took much less effort for me to move on Mars than it did on Earth.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

This was known for a long time, but it took Mr. Einstein to figure out why nature is behaving in that fashion.

这一点在很早以前就人所共知了,不过是爱因斯坦先生解释了,大自然为什么以这种模式运行

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

But the next year, he took almost all of it for himself.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

Well, and sometimes that "O America" Meant the tinkerer, it meant the inventor, it meant the guy who invented a new kind of sewing machine and took it in for a patent.

有时候这个《啊,美国》,意味着工艺师,意味着发明者,意味着 发明新型缝纫机,并将它申请专利的人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It took three weeks for Grant's men to reach the steamboat landing.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Then, also emphasizing in the case of smallpox, how even after the scientific discovery was made, it took many, many decades for people to be able to produce the vaccine in large enough quantities and distribute it, so that you could think about making an impact on global prevalence of the disease.

同时重点就天花疫苗的发展展开了讨论,而即便当科学发现了天花病毒,仍然过了许多年,人类才能够,大规模生产并使用天花疫苗,由此你们可以了解到,在全球范围内,疫苗给天花以致命一击

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It took the Black Hills for the miners.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

Now, to be sure, in Siberia in the far reaches of the north, North Asia, this empire amounted to little more than a series of trading posts, and it took a very long time for any semblance of Russian authority from Moscow and soon from St. Petersburg, for reasons that we'll see, to reach there.

现在,可以肯定,当时的俄国,在西伯利亚和北亚并没有多少商栈,俄国耗费了很多时间,才使得其首都市容变成现在这样,无论是莫斯科,还是之后的圣彼得堡,原因我们会讲到

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

"It took us a long time to get here. It is going to take some time for us to work through this.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

It took decades for Modigliani-Miller to kind of sink in.

数十年后人们才理解了MM命题

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"That is why last growing season, we took most of our produce to schools in this community and distributed it for free."

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

And maybe it was something else. But they withdrew for some reason And how and why they took up the worship of Yahweh or the cult of Yahweh isn't really clear but it seems to have been what marked them as distinct from other Canaanites.

也许是其他原因，但是他们因某一原因而收回,而他们怎样又为何开始了耶和华崇拜,或者说耶和华宗教并不清楚，但似乎,正是这点让他们区别于其他的迦南人。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It took weeks for Toyota President Akio Toyoda to speak publicly about the recalls.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

It took for him to die to see that. This was an amazing man,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

Meanwhile,the House Financial Services Committee took a step to make it easier for U.S.state governments and individual investors to divest from Iran, removing the threat of lawsuits for those doing so.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

"Had it not been for the steps that we took with respect to GM and Chrysler, the situation in Michigan, I think it is fair to say, would be far worse."

VOA: standard.2009.07.14

That's how long it took for an international team of scientists to excavate and analyze the fossilized skeleton of a 4.4 million year old human ancestor, Ardipithecus ramidus, which was discovered in Ethiopia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who just took office last week, said his country hopes to be a "bridge" for the world as it faces challenges such as the global financial and economic crisis, climate change, nuclear non-proliferation and eradicating poverty.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

"I was initially surprised by the news, because I usually expect older people, with longer experience in the peace process, but I took President Obama's winning of the prize as a promise for the future, as much as it is for his approach in the past.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09