Tillicum: I long for freedom, if only for a while.

蒂利克姆：我渴望自由，哪怕只有一段时间。

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If we could be certain that it would be only for a while!

我们若是能肯定她只是一时不快就好啦！

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A friend is a lifetime thing and lovers only for a while.

朋友是一辈子的事而恋人只是一阵子的事。

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Censorship only comes into play once a text has actually been in circulation for a while, only after a number of readers have found a published text to pose a threat.

控制仅仅是一本书已经出版发行一段时间,一些读者已经发现这印刷的文本,造成威胁时才起作用的。

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One of the things you kind of speculate about, and wonder about, why did some cities send out lots of colonies, some cities send out only a few, and others none at all for quite a while.

也许你感到疑惑的一件事是,为什么有些母邦派出了大量移民,另一些只有一些移民,还有其他母邦在很长时间根本没向外移民呢

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Put these ingredients together, and a village will reach critical mass but only for a while.

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The pleasures of "Barbara" flow from an urgency and complexity that are concealed, though only for a while, by Christian Petzold's spare style.

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After 12 years of mayhem in and around the country, there seems to be a tacit understanding that torture does work but only for a while.

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