Business processes can execute their activities in sequence or in parallel, over a very short period of time, or a much longer duration spanning days, weeks or longer.

业务流程可以按顺序或并行执行它们的活动，执行期限可以是较短的时间，也可以是跨数天、数周或更长的时间。

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So to create useful interactions with users with a duration of longer than a single request-response cycle, session state must be maintained somewhere.

因此，如果要创建比一个请求-响应周期更长的有用交互，就必须存储会话状态。

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The Indianapolis Museum of Art went from doing three major shows a year to two of longer duration because of financial considerations.

印第安纳波利斯艺术博物馆因为资金上的考虑将一年三个大展减少到两个持续时间更长的展览。

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Shortening the duration of your bond portfolio means you receive cash sooner than longer duration bonds and therefore you can reinvest that cash sooner at higher interest rates in an inflationary environment.

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Yet Kidd, the future Hall of Famer, was on the court for a longer duration in crunch time.

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Duration measures the amount of time until a bond matures, and longer-duration bonds fall harder when interest rates rise.

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