Although it dates from several hundred years after the building of the pyramids, its sophistication suggests that the Egyptians might have been developing ideas of flight for a long time.

尽管它的历史可以追溯到金字塔建造后的几百年，但它的复杂程度表明，埃及人可能很长一段时间以来一直在思考飞行的想法。

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It is wrong to play down the costs of globalization, but the reality is that we've been playing down its benefits for a long time.

抑制全球化是错误的，但事实却是长期以来我们从全球化中所获得的收益一直在减少。

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That's a model that has been around for a long time and, like any model, it has its strengths and weaknesses.

这是一种盛行已久的模式，它和任何模式一样有优点，也有美中不足之处。

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Greece should have been forced to restructure its debt a long time ago.

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Harvard selecting a professor who has been active in promoting business ethics for a long time to lead its Business School then simply serves as tacit acknowledgment that change is coming.

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