Don’t ask me why it took so long to tackle this problem within the free software community!
不要问我为什么自由软件社区解决这个问题花了那么长时间！
It took so long to find because it's an extremely dim and cool kind of failed star called a brown dwarf.
因为它亮度很低，是“不成功”的恒星——褐矮星中温度很低的一种，天文学家花了很长时间才找到它。
I've been meaning to tell you all something, but it took so long for the details to be decided that it's autumn now.
我一直想告诉你一些事，但是花了那么长的时间为细节可以决定是到了秋天。
Or missed an appointment because it took so long for your window defroster to thaw through your ice-entombed windshield?
是否有过，因为等待那慢性子的玻璃除霜机除去你风挡玻璃上的冰层，而错过了约会的经验？
I love you, in the first seconds I met you will know, I'm sorry it took so long time to recover this feeling, I just stuck with life.
我爱你，在遇到你的第一秒我就知道了，真抱歉花了这么长时间来追回这种感觉，我只是被生活缠住了。
Sometimes a glass of wine or a flirtatious exchange can change the dynamic… and you look at each other and wonder why it took so long.
有时候，一杯红酒或彼此一次调情就能改变关系冷暖…你们将你看我、我看你不知道为什么会等了这么久。
CC: It took so long, 5 or 6 months, to be published because I took over the management of my father's work in 1980 and it took me time to learn the trade.
答：那是个漫长的煎熬，大约五六个月。 1980年，我开始负责管理我父亲的作品，我得花时间来学习商业知识。
Given the rainy British summer this year, the view from north-west Europe is that the new way of doing things is spot on. Shame it took so long to think of it.
基于今年夏天英国的雨季，欧洲西北部的现象表明新的方法恰逢时机，为何现在才想到此法，真是惭愧。
Needless to say, the client was wondering why it took so long for ClearQuest to respond after the Apply button was clicked, completing the changes to the record.
无疑，客户端将会非常疑惑为什么在点击Apply按钮后需要等待这么长时间才能得到 ClearQuest 的回应，完成修改记录的操作。
Why? Because it took so long to reach consensus; it took many, many meetings to build the agreement among group members about how they would move the project along.
为什么呢？这是因为团队需要很长的时间达成一致意见，他们需要开很多会才能在成员之间对于如何进行项目达成共识。
If you stop making excuses and do it you'll wonder what took you so long.
如果你停止辩解而开始行动，你就会惊讶是什么让你耗费了这么长的时间。
If you consider how long it took me to explain why I vetoed the bill, you understand why it was terrible politics to do so.
如果你考虑到我花了那么长时间解释为什么要否决这样的法案，你就会明白禁止这样做的政策是多么可怕。
You've got to wonder what took so long if it was that slow, but at least it's faster now.
您可能奇怪如果它这么慢的话，我们为什么还一直在使用它呢，但它至少目前是快速的。
It was getting hot, so we parked our bikes at Charles Clore park, right along the shore, and took long swigs from our water bottles.
天变得很热了，我们在海边的查尔斯·格劳利公园里停好了车，拿出水瓶来痛饮一番。
Anna Magnani, an iconic Italian actress from the fifties, once warned a makeup artist not to retouch her wrinkles –because, she said, it took her so long to earn them.
安娜•马格纳尼是一个标志性的意大利女演员，她曾经警告一个化妆师不要试图去抹平她的皱纹，她说她花了太久去得到她。
As it were, getting this book published took up all his free time, including weekends, public holidays and annual vacation breaks, so he needs a long break.
可以说，出版这本书占用了他所有的空闲时间，包括周末、公共节假日和年假，因此他需要一个长长的休假。
Whenever possible, of course, people took their work to other blacksmiths, even if it meant the inconvenience of having to travel quite a long way to do so.
只要有可能,他们就把活儿交给别的铁匠去做,即使这意味着需要多走些路, 他们也不在乎。
Critics may rightly wonder why it took the regulator so long to get its game face on.
批评家自然会奇怪，为什么过了这么久管理机构才进入角色办实事。
When I took this job, I didn't realize it would take so long to get to work — and it wouldn't, if the traffic weren't so horrendous.
当初接受这份工作时，我还没有意识到路程这么长——当然，糟糕的交通状况是罪魁祸首。
It took us a good long time to reach the mouth of the river, so, instead of returning by sea, we got off the boat there and walked back home over the sands of the beach.
费了我们很长时间才到达河的入海口，因而，我们不经海上回去，下了船从海滩上的沙地步行回家。
So they stuck with expansionary policies long after recovery was under way. When inflation took off-it is a little over 20%-they responded by doctoring the Numbers.
因此，在经济恢复并进入正轨后很长的一段时间内，他们仍旧坚持实行扩张性的财政政策，当通货膨胀出现苗头——通胀率小超20%——后，又对政策的数量进行了修改。
So what I'm saying now is it took a long time for this to solidify. And one of the things we think made it solidify was the development of codices,a codex.
所以这花了很长一段时间,才得以统一，我们觉得,使它统一的是抄本的出现。
So I had to save up money since I really wanted to travel — now that I wasn't going to Greece or Italy to dig! It took me a long time to save up the money.
所以我不得不存钱，因为我真的想去旅游，这次我不是想去希腊或者意大利去挖东西。
We made a measurement in class how long it took, so you know the time and so you can come up with a value for g.
以前课上测量过需要的时间，因此时间也知道了，这样g的值就可以求出来了。
These theories were so different and new that most scientists couldn't believe or understand them and it took a long time for them to be accepted.
这些理论与众不同，而且全新的，因此大部分科学家都不相信或理解，经过相当长的时间，这些理论才被接受。
Duke is one of the largest colleges in the country space-wise, and we did believe so because it took us a long time to just walk around on the campus.
全国范围内，杜克也是一所非常大的大学，我们也很确信这一点，因为就参观校园我们就花了很长时间。
Duke is one of the largest colleges in the country space-wise, and we did believe so because it took us a long time to just walk around on the campus.
全国范围内，杜克也是一所非常大的大学，我们也很确信这一点，因为就参观校园我们就花了很长时间。
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