This process can however take a long time and the age at which you start to lose hair does not necessarily provide any clues as to how long it will be until you define yourself as bald.

这个过程尽管能持续较长时间，当你什么时候开始掉发无法确定，也没有任何暗示要经历多久你才能把自己看做为“秃头”。

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You could think, you have to think earnings are going to go up twelve-fold to get it down to four times earnings, which will take a long, long time.

你可能会想，你必然认为收益会上涨12倍,让它回落到四倍于原来收益的地方，会花费很长一段时间。

youdao

A long, long time ago, when I was going to tell him that if he is just one of my illness, don't be a good thing to me, since I was a fool, I am very stupid, I will take it seriously.

很长很长一段时间以前，当我要告诉他，如果他仅仅是我的病，不要对我是件好事，因为我是傻瓜，我很愚蠢，我会认真对待。

youdao

You could think, you have to think earnings are going to go up twelve-fold to get it down to four times earnings, which will take a long, long time.

你可能会想，你必然认为收益会上涨12倍,让它回落到四倍于原来收益的地方，会花费很长一段时间。

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Here is the pitch in--of--a string an octave higher so you can see it this way. As you probably know, if you take a long string and pluck it, it's going to take that long string a long time to pass that sort of cycle, if you will, just one pass through that cycle.

这也是个音高,一个高八度的音弦,你可以这样这样看 你们可能知道,如果你拨动长弦,长弦要经过很长时间,才能完成一个震动周期,如果你想,可以尝试下

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"They seem to think that it will take a long, long time to develop anything, " he says.

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As long as there is poverty and illiteracy, sociologists say it will take a very long time for the villagers to start preferring female babies.

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If the foreigners plan to underprice the locals by operating on a larger scale, it will take a long time and a lot of investment in a shrinking market.

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