The popular Arab belief that Americans fervently covet their land could not be more wrong; on all sides, they long to be shot of Iraq.

阿拉伯人流行的观点认为美国人热烈地贪求他们的土地该是错到家了；从各方面而言，他们渴望可以不费什么力得到伊拉克。

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They both smiled; neither seemed likely to be aware of my absence for long.

他们两个人都笑了，看来都没意识到我离开了很长时间。

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lt's a little crazy for me to be writing about migration patterns without actually knowing how they stay underwater for so long.

对我来说，在不知道它们是如何在水下呆这么久的情况下，写它们的洄游模式有点疯狂。

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And,in the long term,they say, knowing where different genetic traits may be found on the map could lead to better plants.

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Let's say oftentimes orchestral musicians, they're sitting there and they're not playing so they have to be able to count for a long period of time.

时常,管弦乐团的乐手们坐在那里,却不需要演奏,因此他们不得不打很长一段时间的拍子

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and they haven't really thought long and hard about whether they want to be a lawyer.

其实，关于将来愿不愿意当律师，他们自己也没有仔细考虑过。

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We're going to have eight great songs, they're going to be this long, they're going to be this tempo.

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They either work 70 hours per week at a job they loathe or count the hours until the kids go to sleep, or they just generally long to be somewhere anywhere but here.

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The couple also says they long wanted to be parents and had seven unsuccessful attempts at in vitro fertilization.

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