They lazed away the long summer days.

他们懒懒散散地混过了漫长的夏天。

《牛津词典》

The long summer vacation is over.

漫长的暑假结束了。

《新英汉大辞典》

Without the Long Summer, that never would have been possible.

没有长夏期，这一切都不可能发生。

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Financial reform, with the unemployment extension and another measure to provide small business tax benefits, are the three major legislative objectives the president and Democratic leaders agreed to focus on before the long summer recess.

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Only the sound of insects filled the air as I walked through the empty town that summer day so long ago.

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(THE BEACH BOYS - "ALL SUMMER LONG") However,for some teenagers, summer vacation was not all fun and games.

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Third-quarter results, which cover the long summer period when there are no sales, revealed little.

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But the long summer vacation acts like a mental eraser, with the average child reportedly forgetting about a month's-worth of instruction in many subjects and almost three times that in mathematics.

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Changes that were approved include wider powers for MPs to initiate Commons debates, the possible reintroduction of September sittings to break-up the long summer recess, and a greater role for public petitions in Parliament.

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