Count your age by friends, not years.

衡量自己年不年轻，看朋友，而不是看年纪。

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Yet this is a project for decades, not years.

但这是一个几十年的项目，不是几年内就可完成的。

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Realize that hiring managers today are looking for results, not years.

要了解招聘经理现在是在成绩，而不是年次。

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But Professor Hatfull is hopeful this will take months and not years.

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Now these ideas of classes, object-oriented programming, data abstraction, are about 40 years old, they're not new ideas.

面向对象编程的概念，数据抽象的概念，都是40年前就有的老东西了。

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It was not even like that three years ago, which I think is a really bad mistake.

三年前还不是这样，这次我觉得真的错得很离谱。

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Service technicians are often stuck with documentation that is months, if not years, out of date.

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This is uncharted territory that should be seen in terms of decades, not years.

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But the detainees' lawyers say their habeas corpus challenges could take months, if not years.

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