Months turned into years. There was the vague hope that the picture might be done before a retrospective of Lucian’s work next year at the National Portrait Gallery.
数月变成数年，这幅画作如果要在明年的国家美术馆弗洛伊德回顾展之前完成，希望变得很渺茫。
Over the years, modders have introduced several innovations that have grown into entire product categories.
这些年来，游戏制作者们已经引进了许多进入整个生产线的创新产品。
Such ice cores trap gases, bits of dust, and other chemicals that were present in the snow that fell over Greenland for thousands of years and then became compressed into ice.
这些冰芯将气体、尘埃和其他化学物质封存在格陵兰岛数千年来的积雪中，然后被压缩成冰。
These bulbs had been left to themselves for ten years and perhaps they had spread, like the snowdrops, into thousands.
这些花已经被留在这里十年了，也许像雪莲一样，已经蔓延到成千上万了。
A surplus allows snow to accumulate and for the pressure of snow accumulated over the years to transform buried snow into glacial ice with a depth great enough for the ice to flow.
剩余的积雪能够让雪集成堆，且由于多年的积雪形成的压力，剩余的积雪能够让掩埋的雪变成冰川冰，这些冰川冰的厚度足以使冰块流动。
Here water may be stored in ice form for hundreds or even hundreds of thousands of years before being released again into the liquid water system as meltwater.
在这里，水可能以冰的形式储存数百年甚至数十万年，然后再以融水的形式释放到液态水系统中。
She could not help thinking about the garden which no one had been into for ten years.
她不禁想起了那个十年来无人问津的花园。
I assumed that phase was something experts developed after years of research into children's behavior: wrong.
我认为专家们在对儿童行为进行多年研究后得出的结论可以用这个词形容：错误。
People physically fit enough to survive over 100 years ultimately give into diseases such as Alzheimer's which affects the mind and cognitive function.
身体健康到能够活过100年的人最终会患上老年痴呆症等疾病，这些疾病会影响大脑和认知功能。
By doing this, they are reintroducing foods into the marketplace that haven't been grown for years.
通过这样做，他们将多年未种植的食物重新引入市场。
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have been looking into the particulars of beer chemistry for a number of years.
慕尼黑工业大学（TUM）的研究人员已经对啤酒化学的细节进行了多年的研究。
Years ago, you marched into this cube dreaming of being a big shot.
几年前，你走进这个格子间，梦想着成为一个大人物。
Something like $2 million of PAC money has flowed into his campaigns for the last 17 years.
在过去17年间，差不多200万美元的政治行动委员会资金业已注入到他的竞选活动之中。
"No one has been allowed to go into it for ten years," was Mary's careful answer.
“十年来，谁也不许进去。”玛丽小心翼翼地回答。
Over the course of 80 million years, they evolved into tractor-trailer sized, long-necked plant-eaters, like Apatosaurus, formerly known as Brontosaurus.
经过八千万年的演化，他们变成了长脖子的草食性恐龙，并且长得像拖拉机那么大了，就如迷惑龙，以前称雷龙，那么大。
Over the next five years, the group helps the students get into other elite summer math programs, high-performing high schools, and eventually college.
在接下来的五年里，该组织帮助学生进入其他精英夏季数学课程、高水平的高中，并最终进入大学。
In the sand states—Florida, Arizona, Nevada and California—these trends went into overdrive in the years leading up to the crisis.
在沙州——佛罗里达、亚利桑那、内华达和加利福尼亚——这些趋势在危机爆发前的几年里发展到了极致。
The force of collision spewed large amounts of debris into the atmosphere, darkening the skies for several years before the finer particles settled.
碰撞的力量将大量碎片喷射到大气中，在更细的粒子落下之前，天空会变暗几年。
49% of respondents agreed that they have put more investment into them during recent years; 41% agreed that they would invest more in the immediate future.
49%的受访者认为近年他们的投资有所增加；41%的受访者表示近期会加大投资。
Over billions of years, the gas was compressed by gravity into galaxies, stars, plants and eventually, even humans.
在数十亿年的时间里，这些气体被引力压缩成星系、恒星、植物，最终甚至变成了人类。
The Mary Rose then faded into obscurity for another hundred years.
玛丽玫瑰随后又隐没了一百年。
Despite graduating into the best economy in the past 50 years, Gen Zs know what an economic train wreck looks like.
尽管毕业的时期是过去50年来经济最好的，但Z代人都了解经济列车崩溃的样子。
Grandmother burst into tears when she saw her old friends whom she hasn't seen for years.
当看到多年未见的老友时，奶奶突然哭了。
The futility of this approach should, according to the authors, be all too apparent so many years into a period of reduced growth in world markets.
根据两位作者的说法，在全球市场增长放缓的这么多年里，这种做法的无用之处应该是非常明显的。
For example, Peter Sheldon' s studies of trilobites, a now extinct marine animal with a segmented body, offer a detailed glimpse into three million years of evolution in one marine environment.
例如，彼得·谢尔登对于三叶虫的研究，那是一种已灭绝的身体分节的海洋生物，他的研究让我们得以一窥三百万年以来一个海洋环境的进化过程。
It's important to acknowledge that the relationship parameters have changed to avoid falling back into patterns from the teen years.
重要的是要承认，决定亲子关系的因素已经发生变化，以避免这种关系退回到青少年时期的模式。
In recent years, fast food rushes into China, and Chinese young people begin to be fond of it.
近年来，快餐涌入中国，中国的年轻人开始喜欢上它。
In recent years, fast food rushes into China, and Chinese young people begin to be fond of it.
近年来，快餐涌入中国，中国的年轻人开始喜欢上它。
A few years later, we began seeing ads tapping into people's environmental concerns.
几年后，我们开始看到广告宣传在利用人们对于环境的关注。
In recent years, new clues have come from research into genetics, including the distribution of genetic markers in modern Native Americans.
近年来，遗传学研究提供了新的线索，包括现代美洲土著民基因标记的分布。
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