It seems unnatural for a child to spend so much time alone.

一个孩子独自一人待那么长时间似乎有点反常。

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There is only so much time in the day for answering letters.

白天只有这么多时间用来回信。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

People complain about how children spend so much time on computer games.

人们抱怨孩子怎么花那么多时间玩电脑游戏。

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Cut to the chase means to stop spending so much time on details or unimportant material.

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This should all sound incredibly familiar, like I'm just repeating myself in terms of photoelectric effect, because essentially that's what I'm doing, and that's one reason we spent so much time and did so many problem-set problems on the photoelectric effect.

这应该听起来极其熟悉，就像我在重复自己在讲光电效应时所说的话，因为基本上我正是在这样做，这也是我们在光电效应这个问题上,花这么多时间,做这么多习题的原因之一。

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Does anybody know why so much time is spent on that? Yes?

有谁知道为什么要在这上面花这么多时间吗,你说

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It's a great feeling to be in a final match after so much time without playing.

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You are why we spent so much time in this state a few years ago.

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But I spent so much time trying to decide the best word to describe them.

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