Certainly, waiting for hardware that may not come available for a long time, or even just a relatively long time, is not desirable.

的确，等待可能很长时间内都不可用的硬件，或者就算是相对较长的时间，都不是很理想。

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“I just plan on being here for a long, long time and being a role model to my kids,” she said, during a break.

她在一次休息时说，“我就希望能在这里干上个十年半载，给孩子们树立个榜样。

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Maybe it's because just getting to Congress can take a long, long time.

也许是因为去国会可能需要很长很长的时间。

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One critic calls it the first television show in a long time that is just plain fun.

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The crucial point here for us is that immortality means not just living a very long time or even an extraordinarily long time, but literally living forever.

这里至关重要的一点是永生,不仅意味着生存很长一段时间,甚至极其漫长的一段时间，而是指永远生存下去。

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and I think that because... from a long time ago there were, it was just a very diverse city.

而且很久前，这里就是个多元性的城市。

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No one was coming to interview us as often as they were going to interview other groups, and so that ideal just went for a long time when our eating disorders were rising earlier than just now.

NPR: Roundtable: Black Women and Body Image

Online education will allow universities to do that even better: for one, they will provide a way for the best teachers to be recognized and promoted for something other than just research, a long time concern in the APT process at research universities.

FORBES: Who Says Online Courseware Will Cause the Death of Universities?

So long as you pay cash, you can afford to just sit tight for a long time.

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