The symbolism may come from the fact that the olive tree takes a long time to produce fruit, so olives could only be cultivated successfully in long periods of peace.

它的象征意义可能来自于橄榄树需要很长时间才能结出果实，所以橄榄只能在长久的和平时期才能被成功种植。

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This often proves difficult and can take a long time so I will ring a bell so that everyone knows it's time to eat! Hopefully this will speed things up a bit.

事实证明这很困难并可能需要很长时间，所以我会提醒每个人，是时候吃东西了！希望能加快速度。

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I haven't enjoyed myself so much for a long time.

我好长时间没有这么快活了。

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"It's a big deal. How big a deal you have to measure piece by piece but clearly it is the first major change in our health care system since nineteen sixty-five so that's a long time coming."

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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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so for about six, oh, no, it was nine hours a day, it's a long time ago.

每天要上六个，噢，不是，是九个小时的课，这都是很久以前的事情了。

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Dr. Eric Weiner of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston says it's really unusual for a drug to be so effective such a long time after diagnosis.

NPR: Study: Drug Can Curb Breast Cancer Recurrence

The Baltic Sea is semi-enclosed, so it takes a long time to flush out toxins.

BBC: Sweden wants explanation on Baltic nuclear 'dumping'

So I learned a long time ago that the best way to be is really curious, and people like responding to someone who they know is.

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