He was very earnest and thoroughgoing about it, and the affair took quite a long time.
他做事很认真，很彻底，这件事花了很长时间。
It was quite a long journey for him.
对他来说，这是一段相当长的旅程。
It usually takes us quite a long time to truly master a skill.
我们通常需要很长时间才能真正掌握一项技能。
One thousand kilometers was quite a long way to the ancient, but now we can complete the journey in about one hour by air.
1000公里在古代是相当长的一段路，但现在我们坐一个小时左右内的飞机就能完成这样一段旅程。
People often talk of goldfish having three-second memories, but in fact they can learn all kinds of things, and remember them for quite a long time.
人们常说金鱼的记忆只有三秒钟，但实际上它们能学会各种各样的东西，而且能记住很长时间。
I have been pondering over this problem for quite a long time but still couldn't puzzle it out.
我想这个问题想了很久，但还是想不出答案。
Mr. Milton stood for quite a long time, then he raised his arms, took one bounce and launched himself into a perfect dive.
弥尔顿先生站了很久，然后他举起双臂，弹跳了一下，纵身一跃，完美地跳了下去。
We give people a few months to write their story and then it takes quite a long time to judge all the entries and to announce the winners.
我们给人们几个月的时间来写他们的故事，然后需要用相当长的时间来评判所有的参赛作品并宣布获胜者。
It takes quite a long time to pay back a car loan for a white-collar fellow.
对一个白领来说，要还清购车贷款需要相当长的一段时间。
It takes me quite a long time to understand the meaning of the painting by Picasso.
我花了相当长的时间才理解毕加索的那幅画的意义。
It \ 's already been quite a long time and now the weather is starting to get warmer.
都放置很久了，而且现在天气也开始变热了。
You have to go quite a long way past that point to bring back the clear-water ecosystem.
你必须经历一个非常漫长的过程才能通过那个能恢复到清水状态的生态系统的临界点。
"There's quite a long list of compounds that we'd like to get rid of in wastewater," he said.
“污水中需要去除的化合物种类很多，”他说。
For example, the database schema is something that can likely wait for quite a long time.
例如，数据库模式(schema)可以等待很长时间。
And let's not forget that ignoring Japan has been a pretty good idea for quite a long time.
但别忘了，长期以来忽略日本股票一直都是对的。
It takes quite a long time to master it and develop a script based only on the Jython modules.
需要花费大量时间才能掌握资源管理和开发只基于Jython模块的脚本。
Because of the cold ocean current, the spring on eastern Kamchatka lasts for quite a long time.
由于北冰洋寒流的影响，俄罗斯远东地区堪察加半岛上的严寒春季持续了好几个月。
Even the first phase of task will take quite a long time and by no means be accomplished overnight.
第一个阶段工作所需要的时间是相当长的，绝不是一朝一夕所能完成的。
Britain was a declining power but it managed to hang on for quite a long time with intelligent strategy.
英国国力虽然日益衰退，但它还是凭借高明的策略坚持了相当长的一段时间。
It has been so for quite a long time and we upgrade our program according to what is happening on Earth.
它已经花费了这么长的时间，我们升级我们的程序去迎合发生在地球上的事件。
She had been ailing for quite a long time, and we did not even know when her malady had taken a fatal turn.
她病了很久，我们甚至都不知道她的病是什么时候转为绝症的。
Now this booklet can tell them: Ji Xianlin still alive, but after a period of quite a long purgatory disease.
现在这一本小册子就可以告诉他们：季羡林还活着，不过是经过了一段颇长的疾病的炼狱。
There's been the possibility of Microsoft switching to a different network filesystem protocol for quite a long time.
很长一段时间以来，都存在着这样一种可能性：Microsoft将转向一种不同的网络文件系统协议。
That does not, of course, mean the same thing is true in people: 300m years is quite a long time for differences to emerge.
当然，这并不意味着同样的道理也适用于人类：30亿年的时间足以让二者产生差异。
We dashed against the tunnel exit which is quite a long run as the yard was a couple of hundred meters inside the mountain.
我们破灭对隧道出口这是一个相当长的运行码是一对夫妇的百米内的山区。
But 10 years is quite a long period of time and this model desperately needs a redesign for surviving few more years in the market now.
但十年的时间对一个车型来说的确是很长一段时间。它亟需重新设计以便在当今的市场中占有一席之地。
Basalt thus presents a good theoretical opportunity to store a lot of carbon dioxide in a way that would keep it put for quite a long time.
因此，从理论上说，玄武岩提供了大量长期存储二氧化碳的好机会。
Basalt thus presents a good theoretical opportunity to store a lot of carbon dioxide in a way that would keep it put for quite a long time.
因此，从理论上说，玄武岩提供了大量长期存储二氧化碳的好机会。
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