I am relieved, as fireworks can not always be hung in the sky, as long as had been brilliant, why did not persist in this day of fireworks?

我释然，就像烟花不可能永远挂在天际，只要曾经灿烂过，又何必执着于没有烟花的日子呢？

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They saw Grant as a strong and silent soldier a great leader who had won a long and bitter war.

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So priests, ministers or pastors -- we still call them pastors -had long been referred to as shepherds.

因此牧师，神官或教会牧师-我们仍然这样叫他们,很长一段时间都以牧羊人来代指。

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As you can imagine, it had long been out of fashion in Milton's own day.

可以想象，就算是在弥尔顿时期这种诗也早就过时了。

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Millman had been interested in leasing Russian satellites for at least as long as had Semtek, but his company, Transworld Communications, was undercapitalized, and negotiations with the Russians broke down, according to Semtek.

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They had been quarrelling for as long as they had been in love.

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We've had troops in Iraq for almost as long as we had troops in Europe up until the point of V-E Day.

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