It took hours getting there.

花了好长时间才到达那里。

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It took three men to hold him down.

三个人才把他制伏了。

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It took us under an hour.

这事花了我们不到一小时。

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It took a number of years before Congress was able to pass a law demanding a literacy test for immigrants.

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So it took a long time for the twenty books that we have to get settled on. And we'll talk about how that actually happened,also,still.

所以很长一段时间之后那27本书,才最终被确定下来，我们会谈及,那是如何实现的。

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and you failed to invest in that stock right before it took off through the charts.

你却没来得及在这只股票大涨之前及时投资。

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It took a worker smelling crude oil on the ground before it was noticed.

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It took all my energy simply to lift my mosquito net and crawl into its cocoon.

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Every time I see the medal now, I see the village it took to earn it.

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