It takes a lot of practice to play the violin well.

拉好小提琴需要多加练习。

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It takes a lot of pluck to do what she did.

她这么做需要很大的胆量。

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It takes a lot of stamina to run a marathon.

跑马拉松需要很大的耐力。

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This workshop shows that it takes a deep understanding of science to lead a crime scene investigation.

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So what she's going to do is start loading up the electrons, and you see this wand here move slowly, and it takes a while to do it, start become perpendicular.

所以她将要加载电子，你们看到这个棒慢慢地移动，这个需要一段时间，开始变得垂直了。

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And yeah, it takes a long time to get good at it. A lot of fitness, too. A lot of working out.

要想划得熟练需要时间。体能也要好。再加上大量的锻炼。

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Maybe it takes a certain amount of meanness to be successful, at least in business.

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For instance, in Oakland, California, it takes a median 14 days to sell.

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It takes a degree of skill to derive useful data from millions of Medicare claims.

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