I was caught in a traffic jam for over an hour, otherwise I would have not kept you waiting for such a long time.

我遇上塞车堵了一个多小时，否则我就不会让你等这么长时间。

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Bide thy time in patience; it will not be for long.

你要耐心等候，不会太久的。

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If the body has only partially decayed, it is reburied in a smaller cheaper grave, but not for long, the body will be dug up again some time later when it has fully decayed.

如果尸体没有完全腐烂，尸体会被重新埋在一个较小较廉价的墓地中，不久后，当尸体完全腐烂时，就会被再次挖出来。

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For the best results, carrots should be grown in sandy soil that does not hold water for a long time.

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For a long, long time the general wisdom was there were not heavy casualties in hoplite battles -- people calculating on what I was just talking about.

长期以来的共识是,方阵战不会造成大规模的伤亡,人们相信这一点

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Well,De Gaulle has been dead for a very long time, and there has been progress, but what has not changed is still the power in Paris, in these ministries, to dictate the life of schools, of almost everything else.

戴高乐已经去世很久,在某些地方已经有所改进,但是巴黎的权利,政府各部门的权利仍未改变,他们规定校园生活,还有几乎其他任何事情

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In a time not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a little phenomenon was born that united the people of cyberspace through geographic services and social networking.

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This means he has missed three tournaments in a row - a long time doing not much in a sport where only those in peak condition have any hope of staying on the mat.

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She had last seen him Monday morning, when he told her he was planning to drive north to visit his ill godfather who he had not seen in a long time.

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