It was a good choice: by the time I was twenty-five, I'd already finished two novels and had an agent.
这是个不错的选择：在我25岁的时候，我就已经写完了两部小说，并且有了一个经纪人。
They took a long time getting to the top, the only reward for the long years of waiting being that when they had their own newspapers, both knew what they wanted and firmly set about getting it.
他们花了很长时间才达到顶峰，多年等待的唯一回报是，当他们有了自己的报纸，他们俩都知道自己想要什么，并坚定地着手去实现它。
I had time to do a quick edit of my essay before handing it in.
我呈交论文之前有点时间，很快地校订了一遍。
It was the first time in years that a Japanese manufacturer had not topped the list for imported vehicles.
这是多年来日本厂商第一次未能位居进口汽车名单榜首。
It was the first time Jane and I had been apart for more than a few days.
这是我和简第一次分开超过了几天。
A person who had input into where he would move and has had time to adapt to it might do as well in a nursing home as in a small residential care home, other factors being equal.
在其他因素相同的情况下，如果一个人对他将要搬去的地方有了一定的了解，并且有时间去适应，那么他在养老院的表现可能和在小型安老院的表现一样好。
However, on the second time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before and behind it was a little door.
然而，在第二次旋转时，她发现了一个自己没有注意到的低帘子，帘子前面和后面有一扇小门。
He was unhappy when he sold his violin. After all, he had had it for a very long time.
卖掉小提琴时他很不高兴。毕竟，他拥有了这个小提琴好久。
Greeley provided a humorous description of himself, written under the pretense that it had been the work of his long-time adversary.
格里利用幽默的话语对自己进行了描述，并假装这是他宿敌的作品。
It's not cheap, but it made her happy, because she had dreamed of having one for a long time.
它并不便宜，但它让她很开心，因为她一直梦想着拥有一个。
John McEnroe, a three-time Wimbledon champ, proclaimed it the best tennis tussle he had ever seen.
曾三次获得温网冠军的美国名家麦肯罗赞叹，这是他见过的最精彩的一场网球赛。
All summer long Heidi had not been up with him a single time; it was too much!
整个夏天海蒂一次也没跟他一起上山；太过分了！
Buffington says he found a soda bottle half buried in the sand that looked like it had been there since the beginning of time.
布芬顿说，他发现了一个半埋在沙子里的汽水瓶，看起来好像从一开始它就在那里。
It was a few years ago, and I had taken a part-time holiday-season job in a video store at the local shopping mall.
那是几年前的事了，我在假期期间在当地购物中心的一家音像店做了一份兼职。
It was used primarily as a vehicle for teaching religion and was generally presented in Latin, the language of the Christian Church which had considerable influence in Italy at that time.
它主要用作宗教教学的工具，通常用拉丁语表达，也就是当时在意大利影响相当大的基督教会语言。
After this technique had been invented, it was only a matter of time before weapons designers adapted it for the detection of submarines.
"这项技术被发明之后，武器设计者将其改造用来探测潜艇只是时间早晚的问题。
The water was cool and sweet for a man who had expected it for such a long time.
对于一个期待了这么久的人来说，这水又凉又甜。
It was a time when many people had just made the hard journey back to their hometowns.
那时候，许多人刚刚踏上返回家乡的艰难旅程。
It was great in the end although we had a terrible time at the beginning.
虽然我们在开始的时候过得很糟糕，但结局还是很好的。
It was the first time in my life I had touched a wild animal.
这是我有生以来第一次接触野生动物。
I really had a good time in the village and wished to visit it again.
我在村子里玩得很开心，希望能再去看看。
Inside the box, Sunee saw something uncommon. It was a red silk umbrella. She had never seen anything like it! "Shipping a package overseas used to take a lot of time," said Grandmother "Packages traveled by train and ship. It could take many months to get a package from across the ocean. How long did your package take to arrive?"
在盒子里，苏尼看到了一些不寻常的东西。那是一把红色的绸伞。她从来没有见过这样的东西！“过去寄一个包裹到海外要花很多时间，”祖母说，“包裹要乘火车和轮船。大洋彼岸收到包裹可能需要好几个月的时间。你的包裹花了多长时间到达？”
He worked on it with the greatest care, but the corn was dying because there had been no rain for a long time.
他悉心地照料着它，但由于长时间未下雨，玉米快枯死了。
Buffington says he found a soda bottle half buried in the sand that "looked like it had been there since the beginning of time."
布芬顿说，他发现了一个半埋在沙子里的汽水瓶，“看起来就像是从一开始就在那里一样。”
By the time I got home, I only had a few hours to do my homework, and I had to do it right away.
回到家时，我只有几个小时的时间做作业，所以我必须马上开始做。
If we had a big mistake in the experiment, we needed to analyze why it happened and what we should do to avoid it next time.
如果我们在实验中犯了大的错误，我们需要分析为什么会出现这种情况，以及下次应该如何避免。
Besides driving well, the most important thing a taxi driver needs to know is the streets, and I knew the city well because I had lived in it for a long time.
除了良好的驾驶技术，对出租车司机来说最重要的就是要了解城市的街道。我很了解这座城市，因为我在这里住了很长一段时间。
There was a report that stood out last week because it had a well-defined time element.
上周有一份报导引人注目，因为其中有明确的时间因素。
It had taken a long time, and I was glad to know that at least the problem would be resolved before I left.
这一问题已经花了太多时间，我很高兴地看到在我离任前得以解决。
It reminded me of better days, days when my friends and I had fun, and it had been a long, long time since I’d allowed myself to do anything that sounded like fun.
它让我记起了那些更悠闲的日子，那些我和我的朋友们曾经快乐的日子；毕竟我放纵自己去尝试任何听起来好玩的新鲜事物的日子，已经过去很久了。
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