"You're a long time dead" as the saying goes, so don't waste time with worry or regret.

俗话说，“人终有一死。”因此何必为担忧或是遗憾而浪费时间呢？

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It may ride its own large, but strategically dead-ending, business for a long time; but it could also find itself missing out on the huge next wave of the Internet — social.

很长时间内，其业务可能依然庞大无比，但是从战略上看，却没有出路可言；另一方面，它也可能发现自己正与下一波互联网洪流——社交——失之交臂。

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If one of these objects survives long enough to be moved into tenure space before becoming unreachable, it could be a long time before a tenure collection runs and "realizes" that the object is dead.

如果这两种对象存活的时间足够长，在变得无法访问之前被移动到保留区空间中，那么可能会经过很长时间以后才会运行保留区收集，“发现”这个对象已经死亡。

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(Talks) He says the peace process,in his mind, has been dead for a long time.

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Even there, a horse is not really a rigid body, unless it's been dead for a long time.

马甚至都不是真正的刚体,除非是死了很长时间了

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Well,De Gaulle has been dead for a very long time, and there has been progress, but what has not changed is still the power in Paris, in these ministries, to dictate the life of schools, of almost everything else.

戴高乐已经去世很久,在某些地方已经有所改进,但是巴黎的权利,政府各部门的权利仍未改变,他们规定校园生活,还有几乎其他任何事情

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Mr Black's novels include Paying For It and Long Time Dead and feature private detective Gus Dury.

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In a non-negotiable six minutes, long answers equal dead time and a sharp reduction in the amount of questions you can ask.

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Residential real estate is dead, and it will remain dead from oversupply for a long, long time.

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