Sailors took note of this long ago, and came up with a saying: "The farther the sight, the nearer the rain."

水手们很久以前就注意到了这一点，并想出了一句谚语：“看得越远，雨越近。”

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I wish I bought this long ago. Excellent!

我希望我买了这很久以前。优秀！

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He sees now from the quiet of her voice that she must have known this long ago.

他从她平静的声音中听出她肯定早已料到。

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This idea developed long ago in British common law to define the responsibility of teachers toward their students.

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Now this was nineteen-eighty-two, quite a long time ago, at a time when people really weren't paying much attention to calories like they are now, so you'd expect the errors to decline as time goes on and there's some evidence of that, but they're errors nonetheless.

这是1982年的实验,很早之前了,当时的人们并不像今天的人们一样,那么关注卡路里,所以你会预计误差会随时间推移而减小,有证据证明了这一点,但误差仍然存在

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I should have started writing this paper a long time ago.

我早该开始写这篇论文。

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Virtually every country in Asia allowed this long ago (including even China and Cambodia), because domestic telecoms firms that carry calls share in the profits.

ECONOMIST: Foreign direct investment

We learned this long ago in the U.S. and it resulted in major U.S. corporations offshoring repetitive, manufacturing work or upgrading it through technology to the point where it became skilled work.

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Barnes and Noble did this long ago.

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