Usually it didn't take long for the times to appear, but now it remained blank for so long I was beginning to worry that a fuse had blown.

通常成绩显示是很快的，可是这一次过去了很久，它的上面却仍然一片空白，我真有点怀疑是不是保险丝爆了。

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So what I'm saying now is it took a long time for this to solidify. And one of the things we think made it solidify was the development of codices,a codex.

所以这花了很长一段时间,才得以统一，我们觉得,使它统一的是抄本的出现。

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