If you wanna tie anchor to it and drop it right into the ocean, that's no problem, because plant fibers can stand up for months, even years, in direct contact with salt water.
如果你想把锚栓在它上面，然后直接把它扔进海里，那是没有问题的，因为植物纤维可以在直接接触海水的情况下存活数月甚至数年。
It can take months, or even years, for a book to go from an idea to a finished product.
一本书从构思到完成可能需要几个月、甚至几年的时间。
People can revisit and refocus an image, days, months, even years later.
人们可以在几天、几个月、甚至几年后重新审视和调整图像。
Even years after the program was implemented, minority business receipts were not quite two percent of the national economy's total receipts.
即使在该计划实施数年后，少数民族企业的收入还不到国民经济总收入的2%。
It often takes weeks, months or even years to achieve it.
它常常需要几周、几个月甚至几年的时间去达成。
In the Southern states, whites were sentenced to months or even years in jail.
在南方各州，白人则被判处几个月甚至几年的监禁。
Even years later in adolescence, those children were still 10 points ahead in I.Q..
甚至过了很多年到了孩子的青春期，有早期教育孩子的智商还领先10点。
I’ve had these kinds of dreams so many times, even years after I finished grad school!
就算读完研究生后很多年，这种梦我还做过好多次！
But not so with comas, which can leave a person unconscious for hours, weeks -- even years.
但是也有别的情况发生，这种药物昏迷也有可能留下某人几小时，几星期，甚至几年的无意识状态。
And remember that it could actually take months or even years before they learn some habits.
要记住他们需要花上几个月甚至是几年时间才能学会一些习惯。
It might take several months or even years to develop that new taste but it is still possible.
也许这得花费几个月，甚至是几年才能培养出这种新的胃口，但这是可行的。
I'm sure geologists might happily consider minutes, days, or even years in some cases as real time.
我相信地质学家在某些情况下把分、日甚至年看作是实时。
Sometimes, people do not experience any symptoms for many months or even years after being infected.
有的时候，人们还可能在感染了肺结核之后，在好几个月甚至是几年的时间里也感觉不到任何相关的症状。
However, there are some excellent reasons to wait a few months before getting married, or even years.
然而，也有极好的理由，可以在结婚前等几个月甚至几年。
Most patients recover fully, but in some cases joint pain may persist for several months, or even years.
大多患者可以痊愈，但有些患者的关节痛会持续数月甚至数年。
While SQL Server 2005 is not exactly new, database migrations can take months or even years of planning.
虽说SQLServer 2005不完全算全新的产品，但是数据库迁移要花几个月甚至几年的时间。
For months and even years, the people of the Indus Valley will not have sufficient income for food or clothing.
有这么几个月，甚至几年，印度河流域的村民都会没有足够的收入来维系衣食。
It happens all the time: a guy spends months, even years, in a long-term relationship with a girl he really digs.
这样的事情总是发生：一个男人花费了几个月，甚至几年和他爱的女人保持了一段长期的关系。
Some people work on a project for weeks, months, even years trying to perfect it and it never gets made or published!
一些人在一个项目上花费几周、几个月甚至数年的时间来将其做到完美，但它却从未实现或发表！
Though its symptoms can occur soon after the event, the disorder often surfaces several months or even years later.
其症状有时在事件之后立刻显现，有时却在事件过后几个月甚至几年后才逐渐表现出来。
Business process-based applications can include long-running instances, which can run for weeks, months, or even years.
基于业务流程的应用程序包括长期实例，这种实例可以运行几周、几月、甚至几年。
But people with anger problems often stew for days, weeks or even years; their feelings of rage fail to diminish over time.
但是那种错乱愤怒的人可能会持续几天、几周有点甚至几年，他们的愤怒情绪不会随着时间的推移而减轻。
Be prepared to spend months or even years just learning the basics, building significant traffic, and becoming an authority in your niche.
准备好用几个月或者甚至几年的时间仅仅学习一些基础知识，建立起重要的流量，在你的专门领域中成为权威。
Although several American TV dramas have appeared on domestic TV channels, they are aired months, even years, after their initial US airing.
虽然不少国内的电视频道也有美剧上映，但时间会比美国本土晚几个月甚至几年。
Mr. Almunia could be persuaded to extend his present review into a more exhaustive second phase, which could take months or even years.
Almunia先生可能会被说服要将其之前的评估带入到更加令人身心俱疲的第二阶段，这样可能需要花费数月或数年的时间。
Most antidepressant drugs currently available on prescription need several months or even years to take effect and must be taken everyday.
现在处方上可以使用的大部分抗抑郁药需要数月甚至数年才能显示疗效而且必须每天服用。
Most antidepressant drugs currently available on prescription need several months or even years to take effect and must be taken everyday.
现在处方上可以使用的大部分抗抑郁药需要数月甚至数年才能显示疗效而且必须每天服用。
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