合并的事情已经酝酿了一段时间。

The merger has been on the cards for some time now.

《牛津词典》

阿兰大声威吓地对我们说，他不会浪费时间讨论这些没用的事情。

In a loud, hectoring tone, Alan told us that he wasn't going to waste time discussing nonsense.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

我们需要了解事情发生的确切时间。

We need to know the exact time the incident occurred.

《牛津词典》

But then I was also at Hilary Sunday School of my present Baptist church You have all of this comes together.

但是我同样还在另外一所主日学校打工,总是能同一时间做好几件事情。

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so that's great that a lot of people have enough time to be in something that's not math or science related.

很多人投入了时间，来做与数学或科学无关的事情，这真的太好了。

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Whereas in the linear case, I make it ten times bigger, it takes ten times longer to run. OK.

它要占用原来十倍的时间去运行，我一直在说还有一件事情没有讲，这是我要强调的最后一件事。

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