How could he hope to keep Louisiana, thousands of miles away across the Atlantic, as long as Britain was "Empress of the Seas"?

只要英国还是“海洋女王”，他怎么可能希望把横跨大西洋几千英里之外的路易斯安那州留在那里呢？

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He taught me how to use the long and sharp hoe.

他教我如何使用那长长的尖锄头。

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It taught him how to think independently and abstractly about space and time, and it wasn't long before he became a philosopher himself.

它教会了他如何独立、抽象地思考空间和时间，没过多久，他自己也成为了一名哲学家。

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It was a cancer. President Cleveland asked how long he could wait to have the cancer removed.

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And we will then get over to here, where he's sitting on the tonic chord, and we want to see how long he's going to hold this tonic chord. Okay?

接着再到这里来，他停在了主音和弦上，然后我们想看看他会在主音和弦上保持多久，好吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And you could never imagine that he would be somebody that people would listen to on the radio, hour after hour, because that's how long he talked; or that when Stauffenberg tries to kill him in 1944 the Germans would pour out of the-- into the street to thank god for saving the Fuhrer.

你根本就无法想像人们会在,收音机上听他讲话,听好几个小时,因为他讲话就讲那么长时间,或者在1944年,史陶芬博格想要刺杀他的时候德国人会冲到,到大街上感谢上帝拯救他们的元首

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

He's got a great variety of goods and a lot of penny candy in the front so little Syrian kids are coming in to buy from him, because he doesn't know how long he has to wait.

NPR: Millions Stranded by the War in Iraq

More probably, he considered it time to heed the cry of the europhiles that in order for their cause to prosper Mr Blair needed to give some extra sign of enthusiasm, before he enters the next election and no matter how long afterwards he intends to defer a referendum.

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So he doesn't know how long he's going to be in Syria.

NPR: Millions Stranded by the War in Iraq