As you can imagine, it had long been out of fashion in Milton's own day.

可以想象，就算是在弥尔顿时期这种诗也早就过时了。

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Japan's smoking population now stands at less than 25%, though it had long been considered a smokers' paradise with smoking rates hitting a peak of 49.4% in 1966.

现在日本的吸烟率不到25%，而日本长期以来被认为是烟民的天堂，在1966年，吸烟率达到了49.4%的高点。

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Bofore the matter was publicly announced, it had long been in the air.

这件事在公诸于世之前早就传得满城风雨了。

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I felt close to that kind of thing because I had denied it and had been left away from it so long.

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As you can imagine, it had long been out of fashion in Milton's own day.

可以想象，就算是在弥尔顿时期这种诗也早就过时了。

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It has been tempered in a celestial fire in ether, and it was the ether of the ethereal heavens that had always been thought -throughout the Renaissance and long before, of course -- to be the most perfect substance imaginable.

它是在广阔苍穹的天国之火中被锻造出，也是飘渺的天堂中的以太,不断地被提及,-贯穿于文艺复兴的始终，当然--是可想见的最完美的物质。

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It had long been a dream of the company's cofounder, engineer Alfred W. Fielding.

FORBES: Wrap Star

It had long been known that criminals from the south had put down roots in the richest parts of the country.

ECONOMIST: Mafias on the move

The minister said it had long been his view that "there should be a single integrated teacher training system in Northern Ireland".

BBC: Northern Ireland Assembly