现在请长话短说–我的时间很宝贵。

Now please be brief – my time is valuable.

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研究工作者们很清楚他们的大部分时间和努力都不会有成果。

Research workers are well aware that much of their time and effort is unproductive.

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与你们当中的任何一个人离别，即使是很短的时间，也很令人难过。

Parting from any one of you for even a short time is hard.

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And the Aristotelian view held for a long time, but eventually it started to crumble in the light of more data.

而亚里士多德的观点在很长时间里得到了认同，但最终还是崩溃了,在越来越多的数据面前。

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you could maybe be speaking with a friend who talks about his long work hours and you are very surprised,

在你跟一个朋友聊天时，他谈起自己很长的工作时间，而你感到非常惊讶，

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But for a long time I was chastened whenever I remembered that my mother had come close to killing me.

然而很长一段时间里,一想起母亲过来揍我,我就会很听话，“

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