为了完成一份手稿，作者可能要写几个月甚至几年。

Authors may write for months or years to finish a manuscript.

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一本书从构思到完成可能需要几个月、甚至几年的时间。

It can take months, or even years, for a book to go from an idea to a finished product.

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人们可以在几天、几个月、甚至几年后重新审视和调整图像。

People can revisit and refocus an image, days, months, even years later.

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The students were brought into this course were in that interesting gap in the professions where they have been with the company for a couple of years but will probably be four more years before they consider for the big leap, for the big advancement.

参与该课程的学生,职业差别很大,他们还会在,现在的公司待几年,甚至可能在考虑,跳槽或升迁之前，再待四年之久。

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