For a long time I just wanted to play country music.

在过去的很长一段时间，我只想演奏乡村音乐。

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It is impossible to shut these workplaces down because there are people who play specific roles and cannot take a long continuous break.

要关闭这些工作场所是不可能的，因为有些人扮演着特定的角色，无法长时间连续休息。

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Baseball takes a long time to play.

棒球需要打很长时间。

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In fact, they are in practice long-term because you have a relationship with your banker and you play golf with your banker and your banker understands that you have a business -he's your friend, let's hope.

实质上这些借贷款就是长期的,因为你与银行从业者有着千丝万缕的联系,你和他一起打高尔夫,而且他知道你在做生意...,他是你的朋友,希望如此

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This is a riskier play than, say, Archer Daniels Midland, but Chesapeake is a good way to play a long-term boom in natural gas, and Pabrai is betting heavily that the worst is behind the company.

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As President, I have, therefore, made a deliberate and strategic decision -- as a Pacific nation, the United States will play a larger and long-term role in shaping this region and its future, by upholding core principles and in close partnership with our allies and friends.

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That left Aventis as a pure-play drugmaker whose products include Allegra, a blockbuster antihistamine, and Lantus, a long-acting form of insulin.

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