It'll cost a lot—well, take a lot of time, but it amounts to the same thing.

会花很多—哦，得花大量时间，不过反正都是一回事。

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She spends a lot of time rearing animals.

她花很多时间饲养动物。

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Adam spent a lot of time in his grandfather's office.

亚当在他祖父的办公室里度过了很多时间。

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The media and political observers have spent a lot of time examining Mister Obama's first one hundred days in office.

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Milton devotes a lot of time in Areopagitica to making a number of attempts to distinguish licensing from censorship.

弥尔顿在《论出版自由》中花了很大功夫,试图区分出版许可管理和出版控制。

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I think the reason why triathlon is not so, so big is just because it requires a lot of time.

我认为铁人三项运动之所以不够普及，
是因为它需要大量的时间。

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As a nation we're spending a lot of time and energy worrying about tipping points.

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Most of us spend a lot of time thinking about talent recruitment and retention.

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"Federer is starting to take quite a lot of time away from the game, " said Cash.

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