The job isn't exciting all the time, but it has its moments.

这工作并不总是很带劲，但也有让人兴奋的时候。

《牛津词典》

The company has for some time printed its phone number on its products.

这家公司将其电话号码印在其产品上已有一段时间了。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The Institute spends a lot of time scratching its head about how to boost American productivity.

这家研究所花大量时间绞尽脑汁思考怎样推进美国的生产力。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The United States had sent an astronaut of its own into space for the first time in nineteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

And he's parodying both kinds of response in this novel, so in that sense, the novel is very much of its time.

在小说中他模仿了两种方式的应答，从这个意义上说这本小说很有它的时代价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Fate will permit no apocalypse before its time, before the necessary and painful steps that have to lead up to the Last Judgment.

命运在来之前不会允许人们去启示别人，必须要自己去经历必要而又痛苦的那几步,才能走向最终的审判。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Residents of Moore had 36 minutes from the time the National Weather Service issued its warning until the time the twister entered the city.

CNN: A tornado's heading your way: Now what?

Short of that, because every leader at the table, every responsible leader on Capitol Hill, agrees with the President that we cannot let the United States default on its obligations for the first time in its history, we must pursue a fallback or last-ditch option, if you will.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

We believe that the United States will not default on its obligations for the first time in its history.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing