The alternative to capital punishment is longer sentences but they would certainly cost the taxpayers much money.
死刑的替代选择是较长的刑期，但这肯定会耗费纳税人很多钱。
But in the long run, too much specialization doesn't pay off. Business, which has been flooded with MBAs, no longer considers the degree an automatic stamp of approval.
但从长远来看，过多的专业化并不会带来回报。商业界已经有了大量的工商管理学硕士（MBA），他们不再将学位视为一种能自动认可的标志。
I'm always thinking about it—but we couldn't go on like this much longer.
我一直在想这件事——但是我们不能再这样下去了。
The winner of a triathlon usually completes it in about nine hours but the Hoyts take much longer time.
铁人三项的获胜者通常需要在约9个小时内完成比赛，但霍伊特父子需要的时间远长于此。
There were green turtles in our seas e ons before dinosaurs tramped the Earth; they survived the last ice age; but they may not be with us much longer.
恐龙在地球上出现之前绿海龟于就已在古生代出现；在最后一个冰河 时期绿海龟也幸存下来；但它们与我们在一起的日子可能不多了。
But I felt like I had much more downtime, and the vacation seemed longer to me as well.
而我却有很多额外的时间，所以对我来说，这甚至是一个悠长的假期。
I don't know how much longer the injury will take to heal, but anyone wanting England to do well wants to see him back.
我不清楚他还需要多久才能从伤病中康复，但每一个关心英格兰的人都期待着他的回归。
But we must go further. 2015 is only a staging post on a much longer journey.
但是我们必须更上一层楼，2015年只是漫长旅程中的一站。
But China may not be able to avoid a large currency appreciation for too much longer.
但是，中国或许无法长期回避人民币大幅升值的问题。
They are created, but you don't really have much control over when they're disposed or no longer being used.
它们被创建后，即使被撤销或不再使用，您也并没有对它有什么控制能力。
Each held a spoon that reached the pot, but each spoon had a handle so much longer than their own arms that it could not be used to get the stew into their own mouths.
每个人手里都拿一把能够得着锅里肉的勺子，但每把勺子的柄都比他们的胳膊长得太多，他们无法用这把勺子把肉送进自己的嘴里。
But with spreads so high the firm no longer needs to use so much borrowed money to get results.
但是由于差额如此高，公司不再需要花太多借来的钱以达到目的。
It's different in other countries; in Europe, they've had universal banking, which allowed Banks to offer insurance for a much longer time but in the U.S..
这与其他国家是不同的，在欧洲，那里有综合银行，它们提供保险服务已经有很长一段时日了，但是在美国。
But in the longer term they are eyeing a much bigger opportunity: the 98% of Indians who have never flown.
不过眼下他们正将长期目光锁定在一个更大的机遇上：98%的印度人还从未乘过飞机。
Sharp reckons this will enable it to produce cells that are the same size as the lithium-ion batteries used in mobile devices, but which can run those devices for much longer.
夏普认为这将使它能够生产在移动设备中使用的锂离子电池那样大小的燃料电池，但是其续航时间要长得多。
It wouldn't have taken quite the effort of the first time around, but it would have made writing that article a much longer process.
也许再去学那些词不会像第一次那么费劲，但是写完这篇文章恐怕也会花上很长一段时间。
Official travel times aren't much reduced, but commuters who work in the city centre will no longer have to disembark at malmo Central.
公务旅行时间比没有节省多少，但是对于那些在市中心上班的人们来说，他们再也不需要到了马尔默站就下车了。
This is just about feasible at the moment, when centenarians are still comparatively rare, but it will not be the case for much longer.
这种方式在当时是可行的，因为那时候的百岁老人还比较罕见，不过在更远的未来就没这回事了。
But when they were subjected to stress, the level of stress hormones remained high much longer than in normal mice.
但它们感受到了压力的时候，它们的应激激素会持续比正常小老鼠的要偏高并且持续更久些。
But will Bulgarian tolerance last if funds remain frozen much longer or if other bits of EU funding have to be frozen in the future?
然而若是这笔资金继续处于冻结状态，或是欧盟今后冻结更多的款项，保加利亚人的忍耐还能持续多久？
They would offer the benefits of OLED technology, including deep blacks and low power consumption, but with a much longer lifetime, says Mr Hartlove.
它能够提供有机发光二极管的优点，包括深层黑色与低能源消耗，但其使用寿命会长得多，哈特洛夫先生讲道。
The Reaper is much more powerful than its predecessors. It not only flies higher, but loiters longer, and – most significantly – carries a more destructive payload.
“收割机”比以往的无人机更具威力，它不仅飞得更高，滞空时间更长，更重要的是它能够携带具有摧毁性的武器。
Again, the mutant mice behaved appropriately, but they were much less aggressive, spent less time fighting and they took longer breaks between attacks.
这个基因改变的老鼠表现是适当地，可是它们的攻击性减小、打斗的时间也减少而且在打斗之间的休息时间更长。
Pills will not put an end to the epidemic, but they keep people with HIV alive much longer and patients become less infectious to others.
药物固然不能阻止艾滋病的猖獗肆虐，但却能让艾滋病毒携带者活得更长一些，更不易传染他人。
Like all good things, it has taken time, but fortunately, the wait shouldn't be too much longer.
像所有的好东西一样，变化需要时间，但幸运的是，等待不需太久了。
Yes but the journey towards the goals is much more fun now and the destination is no longer an issue.
当然，但现在实现目标的过程更有乐趣，目标也不再是问题。
But with profit eroding like that, one wonders how much longer BYD can continue losing money.
可是在利润下滑如此严重的情况下，比亚迪究竟还能撑多久？
But with profit eroding like that, one wonders how much longer BYD can continue losing money.
可是在利润下滑如此严重的情况下，比亚迪究竟还能撑多久？
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