People often talk of goldfish having three-second memories, but in fact they can learn all kinds of things, and remember them for quite a long time.

人们常说金鱼的记忆只有三秒钟，但实际上它们能学会各种各样的东西，而且能记住很长时间。

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Once she started to talk about herself, she would rattle away for a long time.

只要讲到她自己，她就喋喋不休地讲个没完。

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I spent a long time trying to talk him round, but he just wouldn't listen.

我劝了他半天，他就是不听。

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So it took a long time for the twenty books that we have to get settled on. And we'll talk about how that actually happened,also,still.

所以很长一段时间之后那27本书,才最终被确定下来，我们会谈及,那是如何实现的。

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Worse, customers have to stay on line for long time to talk with someone with the old company to disconnect their services: and even longer time waiting for the cable man to show up and switch their services.

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But voters in Maine seem satisfied with the incumbent King, a lawyer and long-time television talk show host.

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So I can talk for a long time, as a lot of you know, about the strategy here.

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