The timeout defines how long to wait before giving up on the connection to the server.

超时定义了要等多长时间才能放弃连接到服务器。

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For those hedge funds set on playing Europe, the main dilemma they face is how long to wait before buying.

对于那些准备久战欧洲的对冲基金公司来说，他们面临的最大困境是要等多久才能买入。

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This setting tells Windows how long to wait before prompting you that a service is not responding to the shut down request.

这个设置告诉Windows提示某个服务没有响应之前等待的时间。

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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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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.

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Just as Pavlov's dog learned to associate the sound of a bell ringing with dinnertime, rats can learn to associate flashes of light with how long they must wait to receive a sip of water.

MSN: Goggle-wearing rats show link between learning, rewards

The details came from the NHS's 111 Easter SitRep internal report, showing how long patients had to wait for call backs between 26 March and 1 April.

BBC: NHS 111 caller waited 11 hours for call back