But such fast trains would take a long time to put in place in the United States.

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Said a different way, in the case of the straight-line programs, how long would it take to run a program?

换种说法，在直线式程序里面，运行一个程序要多长时间？

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You're asked to take a long walk in the park with your parents. And you're just saying,

你还得陪父母到公园里散步。你这时会感慨道，

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That's why his budget lays out ways in which we can cut the deficit in the mid to long term, but in the short term take care of some of the problems that we've got in this economic crisis, putting Americans back to work, helping banks get more loans out to small businesses so they can create more jobs, and things like that.

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In a restaurant in the same town, 11 burly men in leather jackets and extensive tattoos on their arms take over a long table in the corner.

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The long-distance Javerts in the tough-on-immigration movement need to take a good long look at Les Miserables, whether the book, the movie or the musical, and see the bit of Javert in each of us.

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