It had long been thought that hummingbirds, which forage by day, pollinate its red flowers and that hawkmoths, which forage at night, pollinate its white flowers.
长期以来，人们一直认为，白天觅食的蜂鸟会给它的红色花朵授粉，而晚上觅食的鹰蛾会给它的白色花朵授粉。
As you can imagine, it had long been out of fashion in Milton's own day.
可以想象，就算是在弥尔顿时期这种诗也早就过时了。
It had long been widely held that the varieties of humankind reflected the action of different climates.
人们长期以来就普遍认可这样的观点，即不同的人种反映了不同的气候作用。
Japan's smoking population now stands at less than 25%, though it had long been considered a smokers' paradise with smoking rates hitting a peak of 49.4% in 1966.
现在日本的吸烟率不到25%，而日本长期以来被认为是烟民的天堂，在1966年，吸烟率达到了49.4%的高点。
Darwin and Huxley supported the accuracy of John Joly's calculation of Earth's age because it agree with their view of how long evolution had been in progress.
达尔文和赫胥黎肯定了约翰·乔利计算的地球年龄的准确性，因为这与他们关于进化进行了多长时间的观点不谋而合。
Soon it was resolved that everybody should visit the grandmother, who had been left alone so long.
不久，大家都决定去看望奶奶，她已经独自一人呆了很久了。
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。
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！
It was because it had been shut up so long that she wanted to see it.
因为它被关封了这么久，所以她想去看看。
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。
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。
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。
Had it been a drugs issue, she would have been suspended a long time ago, but this is a unique problem for which the IAAF's rules do not make provision.
如果是一个违禁药物的案件，那她早就得到处罚了。但现在是一个很独特的情况，国际田联在这方面还没有相应的规则。
It had been a long, costly tragedy, "fuelled on both sides by unreal and exaggerated estimates of the intentions and strength of the other side."
冷战是一场代价巨大的长篇悲剧，“这是由双方对彼此意图和实力的不真实和夸大的估测的激增导致的”。
He had once thought to gouge it out, but that had been a long time ago, and as time passed in the silence of the Waste, he had forgotten.
他曾经想过把这个标志挖去，但那是很久以前的事了。在寂静的荒野地，随着时间的流逝，他逐渐忘记了。
As a gesture of goodwill, it released the bodies of two long-dead British hostages who had been kidnapped two years ago.
作为一种善意的姿态，他释放了两具早已死亡的英国人质尸体，这两名人质于两年前被绑架。
It could only be reached by a ladder from the cheese-loft, and had been closed up for a long time till he arrived and selected it as his retreat.
奶酪间里有一架楼梯，只有从那儿才能上楼去，阁楼已经关闭了很长时间，他来了以后才把它打开作他的住处。
It is 20 years since India had a balance-of-payments crisis and for a long time the talk has been about it becoming an economic superpower.
印度摆脱国际收支平衡危机已经过去了20年，而且长期以来人们都在谈论它将会成为一个经济强国。
The demise of GM had been expected for so long that when it finally died there was barely a whimper.
人们对于GM的终结已经等待得太久，以至于当它最终死亡时，大家只有些许抽噎。
On my first date with Mark, he asked how long it had been since my last relationship.
我第一次和马克约会，他问我上一次恋爱离现在有多久了。
Bill Gates has been talking about this product for years, long before it ever had a product name.
在这个产品有名字之前，比尔·盖兹就已经把它挂在嘴边好几年了。
Moreover, it had been a long time since he had seen him; and this still further augmented the impossibility for Marius' timid and reserved nature.
何况马吕斯又很久没有见到他了，马吕斯的性格本来就腼腆审慎，这更使他不可能去和他交谈了。
It was an especially exciting finding because it had previously been thought that long-term memory (and 24 hours is long-term for psychologists) didn't emerge until as late as 8 or 9 months.
这是一个特别激动人心的发现，因为在那之前人们认为长期记忆（24小时对心理学家就算长期了）直到8或9个月才会出现。
Passers by began asking her for product details, thinking she worked for the chair's manufacturer, at which point she realised just how long she had been sitting in it.
渐渐的经过的顾客开始向她询问产品的细节，原来自己被看成游戏椅厂家的员工了，这才使她意识到她已经在椅子上坐了很长一段时间。
The company had long been performing the ceremony in Sapporo, but it had begun to receive inquiries from people in other parts of Japan, where the ritual was less common.
尽管该公司长期在札幌从事业务，但后来却不断收到日本其他地方民众的请求，而在那些地方，入殓仪式并不常见。
GM had long been big in Latin America, but in China and Russia it was reaping the rewards from being among the first foreign firms to set up factories.
通用在拉丁美洲长期以来独大，而在中国和俄罗斯它则作为第一批建厂的企业享受着收获的喜悦。
It had been an idle and joyful celebration, but the quickening onset of dusk with its long-fingered and persecuting shadows provokes a sense of malaise.
这是一个悠闲欢快的庆典，但是黄昏的加速开始和它不断拉长的阴影引起一种不安的感觉。
So she quizzed me about how much I drank I'm not repeating it here, how long that had been the case ditto, whether I'd ever given up yes!
她问我喝了多少(恕我保密)、这样的情形多久了(同上)，我有没有想过戒酒(是的！)
When I saw her skin, I realised how long it had been since I'd seen a belly without stretchmarks.
当我看见她的皮肤的时候我才明白我有多久没有见过没有皱纹的皮肤了。
When I saw her skin, I realised how long it had been since I'd seen a belly without stretchmarks.
当我看见她的皮肤的时候我才明白我有多久没有见过没有皱纹的皮肤了。
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