How long can your world tolerate your absence, and what does it look like when you re-surface?

你的缺席对于你的世界来说可以有多长的容忍度，而当你重新出现时你的时间是什么样子？

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Think of evaluating the "truth" of your relationship the way you would evaluate a long vacation overseas: when you come back, what do you tell people when they ask you how it was?

评价人际关系中的“事实”，就像评价一个漫长的海外假期：当你度假归来，人们问你这个假期到底怎么样的时候，你会如何告诉人家？

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When you set a goal that improves your present reality, what does it matter how long it takes to achieve the final outcome? Whether it takes one week or five years is irrelevant.

当你为改善现状而制定目标时，花多长时间才能达到最终结果又有什么关系呢？

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We wanted to investigate to find out who knew what, when, and for how long.

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How long the grain rally lasts rests largely on what happens when U.S. farmers return to their fields this spring.

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Since Anna, Martin and Christopher know you can't get enough of this excitement, Anna had another letter published in the Guardian (Facebook wall for the literati, apparently), addressed to both the chaps, bringing in a bit more detail about who smoked what cigarette, for how long, and where and when.

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