他把整个故事缩为一段。

He telescoped the whole story into one paragraph.

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食物需要保留其质量为一段很长的时间。

The food needed to retain its quality for a long period of time.

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为一段特殊时期做好准备。

Be prepared for a period of time.

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So you can see in that passage Hobbes takes himself to be a moralist writing within the great tradition of moral philosophy.

所以在这一段中你可以看出,霍布斯自诩为道德学家,作品不超出道德思想伟大传统的范围。

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For a long time MIT has not had a laboratory associated with large courses.

麻省理工很长一段时间以来,都没有为大课设置实验室。

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It might be worth pausing over the variety of ways in which we can think of signs in language, all of which have to do with the way in which a given sign might be chosen to go into a speech sentence.

这也许值得尝试,为了理解语言和符号的关系，这一切都和符号怎样,被选择为一段话语的构成部分有关系。

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