If a con snitches, he "isn't long for this world."
如果一个囚犯告密，他就“命不久矣”。
And what was the cruel blow was that Sylvia was found to be ill badly and not long for this world.
而最残酷的打击是西尔维娅生了很严重的病，活不了多久了。
EXAMPLE: If our family's business keeps losing money every month, it's probably not long for this world.
我们家族的企业每月若再这样亏损下去，恐怕就来日无多了。
But the fact that the Earth's four-billion year bounty has been so reduced in scarcely a century suggests that helium is sadly not long for this world.
但地球40亿年的储备，仅用一个世纪就减少到如此地步。现实无疑在提醒我们：很遗憾，氦将不久于世。
Determining which industries aren't long for this world may seem easy enough. But some types of businesses, such as telemarketing1, are surprisingly hard to kill.
推断世界上哪些行当不会长久看似容易。但有些行当，比如电话营销，则出人意料地难以消灭。
Remember the 1980s, when it seemed the Amazon rain forest wasn't long for this world — and that humanity was threatened as atmospheric oxygen levels correspondingly declined?
记得上世纪80年代，亚马逊雨林似乎很快就要在世上消亡了，但难道这会导致大气中的氧含量相应下降，进而使人类受到威胁？
These are imperfect: raw results reflect a school's social mix, adjusted versions are hard to understand, and the tests' troubled recent history means they may not be long for this world.
然而仍存在不足之处：原成绩反映了学校的社会混合，调整后的版本很难理解，还有测试里包含的麻烦的近代史表明了他们也许并不羡慕这个世界。
So the non-smart phone is probably going on the endangered list, confined to out-of-the-way places and curmudgeons like me for now, but for the most part, it's probably not long for this world.
因此，非智能手机可能正进入濒临灭绝的清单，只有在偏僻的地方或像我这样的老东西还在使用。在很大程度上讲，它在这个世界上可能为时不远了。
All the world had frowned on her - for seven long years had it frowned upon this lonely woman - and still she bore it all, nor ever once turned away her firm, sad eyes.
整整七年，全世界都曾经对她，对她这孤苦无依的女人，皱起眉头，但她还是挺过来了，从来没有一次掉转开她那坚定而伤心的目光。
So long as Asia keeps doing well, Thailand will not be as badly hurt and Asia could lead the recovery this time pretty much for the entire world.
所以只要亚洲情况保持良好，泰国受到的冲击就不会那么大。 亚洲这次很有可能会带动全球走出经济危机。
As long as you can keep the world guessing, the more people will be pumping for meaning, and the more mystique this movement will have.
只要能让这个世界继续猜测下去，只要越来越多的人开始搜寻这场运动的意义，它就会变得越来越神秘。
As you know, it's not easy to unplug for this long in today's world.
正如你所知的，在当今社会无所事事这么久并不容易做到。
I mean: in living for so long inside this vividly imagined world, I was, in essence, connecting with the story-world I had grown up with.
我的想法是：我圄于生动想象中的世界为时已久，本质上与我成长时期耳濡目染的故事天地休戚相关。
There are two big questions about this downturn for America and the world: how long? And how deep?
美国与全球经济需直面两个问题：本次经济衰退持续的时间及其程度？
As aesthetic sessions increasingly go organic or employ traditional remedies, women at the "Beauty World Japan" exhibition this week lined up to try acupuncture, long known for its health advantages.
如今美容界越来越推崇有机美容和传统美容法。上周在日本举办的“美丽世界美容展”上，女性朋友们纷纷排队尝试针灸美容。
We are to gain experience since this is the first time for us to hold such a large-scale and long-duration world exposition.
由于是第一次举办如此大规模、长时间的世博会，我们还缺乏经验。
There are not enough women in positions of power. The world has suffered from this deficit for a long time.
整个世界很长时间都一直苦于当要权的女性过少。
To handle over 30 million annual visitors — many of them during this busiest time of year for the megaresort — Disney World long ago turned the art of crowd control into a science.
每年迪斯尼的的游客多达3000万人次，而且许多是在一年中最繁忙的时候去，长久以来，迪斯尼已把处理游客拥挤的技术变成了一门科学。
Usually thought of as a Nintendo-only franchise, Link and co actually popped up on the not-long-for-this-world Philips CD-i for three CD-Rom adventures.
作为任天堂独占游戏，林克应该出现在被时代抛弃的飞利浦光盘上，开始容量高达三张光碟的冒险之旅。
Before we come to this world, we have lived in our mother's abdomen for a long time.
在我们来到这个世界上，我们就在母亲的肚子里住了很长一段时间了。
On this World Mental Health Day, let us all show compassion and empathy for those who have survived a crisis and make sure they can access the help they need, for as long as they require it.
值此世界精神卫生日之际，让我们大家对危机幸存者表示同情，设身处地为他们着想，确保只要他们有需要就能获得必要的帮助。
And for a long time, I just thought I didn't have a place in this world.
很长一段时间，我都认为自己在这个世界上没有一席之地。
Due to a sense of superiority about their living conditions, this generation tends to long for a perfect self-world, whereas in reality their life is full of quagmires.
由于成长环境带来的优越感，他们大多都向往完美的自我世界，而实际生活中却不断遭遇困境。
This prophecy presents a fascinating challenge, for it combines a short-term prediction about the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple, with a long-term forecast of world events.
这预言代表一次挑战，因为它既短期预报了耶路撒冷的覆灭和殿的毁灭，也长期预报了天下的大事。
As long as there are women in this world still fighting for their emancipation, we should stand by them.
只要妇女们还在为解放自身而斗争，我们就应该支持她们。
In this event, participants float face down on the water for as long as possible without coming up for air. The world record for the event is 11 minutes 35 seconds.
在该事件中，参加者面在不吸气的情况下尽可能长时间的朝下漂浮在水上，该事件的世界纪录是11分35秒。
For long, this theory is not only favored in the field of teaching of world education studies, but also widely applied in language teaching.
因此该理论不仅在世界教育教学领域中备受青睐，风靡久远，而且在语言教学中也被广泛应用。
Thus ended forever for Aileen this long-continued relationship with this older world.
这样，爱玲就永远断绝了与这个旧世界的长期关系。
Thus ended forever for Aileen this long-continued relationship with this older world.
这样，爱玲就永远断绝了与这个旧世界的长期关系。
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