Long lectures really switch me off.

我觉得冗长的演讲很烦人。

youdao

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

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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