Long lectures really switch me off.

我觉得冗长的演讲很烦人。

youdao

Humans have been learning from stories for, well, a really really really long time. Millenia longer than we've been learning from lectures on just the dataand information.

人类从故事中学习，这已经持续了非常非常非常长的时间了，比我们只从讲座里的数据和信息学习长了几千 年。

youdao

The basic problem is that it takes a long time to develop a new sequence of lectures and very little time to give last year's lectures, so things change only slowly.

最根本的问题是，开发一种新授课顺序需要花费很长时间，上一年度的授课时间会变得非常少，因此，这种变化只能缓慢进行。

youdao

For starters, long lectures don't hold people's attention in cyberspace.

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And holding long moral lectures is boring, both for the parent and the child.

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This was not a day of long speeches or lectures on what other nations must do.

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