All this was compatible with older devices so long as there was only one authoritative timekeeper; but with urban growth and the multiplication of time signals, discrepancy brought discord and strife.
所有这些都与旧的设备兼容，只要只有一个权威的计时器；但随着城市的发展和时间信号的倍增，报时的差异导致了不和与冲突。
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。
Occasionally , a sequence of fossil-rich layers of rock permits a comprehensive look at one type of organism over a long period of time.
偶尔，一个富含化石的岩层序列可以让我们持续并全面地观察一种生物。
It seems a strange question, and yet it is one that has puzzled some people for a long time.
这个问题似乎很奇怪，但却长时间困扰着一些人。
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。
For a long time, we assumed that all whales that had teeth including sperm whales and killer whales were closely related to one another.
在很长一段时间里，我们认为所有有牙齿的鲸鱼，包括抹香鲸和虎鲸，彼此都是密切相关的。
One thing happened long time ago, but it has remained in my mind.
有件事虽然发生在很久以前了，但它一直留在我的脑海里。
It's not known when Mars was found and by whom Mars has been known for a very long time, and one of the planets that can be seen from the Earth without a telescope.
在很长一段时间里，没人知道火星是什么时候被发现的，谁发现的，也不知道有一种行星可以不用望远镜就能从地球上看到。
John went to see his doctor one day, because he had a stomachache for a long time.
一天，约翰去看医生，因为他胃痛了很长时间。
A long-time neighbor said they never planted trees and only kept a garden for one year.
一位多年的邻居说，他们从不种树，只打理了一年的花园。
In fact, there is another type of friend—one that has not been with us for a long period of time, but fills our mind at some moment.
事实上，还有另一种朋友，他虽然很长一段时间没有和我们在一起，但却会在某个时刻充满我们的心灵。
For as long as we can remember, one of the most popular ways parents use to punish their children has been the "time out".
自我们记事以来，父母惩罚孩子最常用的方式之一就是“计时隔离”。
I haven't been to see her for a long time now. For one thing, she lives too far away; for another, I've been rather busy.
我好久没有看她，一来路太远，二来没工夫。
You will be regarded as one of the family, long after the completion of your time here at Takapuna Grammar School.
在你结束塔卡普纳语法学校的学业很久之后，他们还是会把你看做是家庭成员。
TO SKI, however well or poorly, is a reminder-whatever one may for a long time have suspected-that one is alive, and that living is tremendous fun.
无论身体健康还是欠佳，滑雪去，这是一个提示(不管一个人长时间有什么可怀疑的)——你还活着，而且活着是极其有趣的。
Okay, so for most people, these are more wallpapers than one would need for a very long time.
好了，对大多数人来说，这些墙纸足够满足他们很长一段时间的使用需求了。
Those kinds of studies don't let one go back a long, long time in the lifespan.
这种研究方法不必对实验对象的过去进行长时间的追溯。
Most often, what causes such a long page load time is one or a combination of the following.
多数情况下，导致网页加载时间长的一个或者一组原因如下。
With such a long time between versions, one would think that Microsoft is finally getting everything synced up.
ReportViewer的版本间隔经历了很长一段时间，人们都在想微软最终一定会保证所有产品的同步。
Our cousins in the U.K. abandoned the four-year schedule for the shorter three-year one a long time ago.
而英国前一段时间放弃了4年的学制，而缩短成3年学制。
If one password test takes twice as long, the total password cracking time takes twice as long.
如果一次密码校验需要两倍时间，那整个密码破解时间也要两倍。
You bet we would be pleased. It would be one of the most remarkable discoveries in a long time.
他说，“我们肯定会高兴坏了，这将是很长一段时间内最了不起的发现之一。”
For a long time, user interfaces were regarded as one of the things for which open source models were hopeless.
很长一段时间以来，用户界面都被视为开源模式令人失望的事情之一。
This can take a long time, especially if any one of the services is slow to respond or if a user has subscribed to many services.
这可能需要花费很长时间，尤其是如果任何一项服务响应较慢或一个用户订阅了多项服务。
For a long time, no one around the black Explorer moved, though at least one of the occupants was monitoring them.
有很长一段时间，黑色探路者附近的人一动不动，但其中至少有一个始终盯着维修车。
For example, yesterday I was wondering why it takes a long time for me to manifest one particular goal.
例如，昨天我在思考，为什么要花费我很长时间去实现一个目标。
This will take a long time because at least one of the calculations will be performed twice.
这样执行的时间会更长，因为每个计算都至少要执行两次。
This will take a long time because at least one of the calculations will be performed twice.
这样执行的时间会更长，因为每个计算都至少要执行两次。
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