It takes a great deal of effort to sustain.

这需要付出很大的努力来维持。

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It takes a great deal of courage to face the situation bravely.

大胆地正视这一局面需要很大的勇气。

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It takes a great number of years to create an "overnight success."

一夜成名往往是花费了很多年很多年的努力。

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But it takes a great deal of skill to become an expert at wheel throwing.

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So you can see in that passage Hobbes takes himself to be a moralist writing within the great tradition of moral philosophy.

所以在这一段中你可以看出,霍布斯自诩为道德学家,作品不超出道德思想伟大传统的范围。

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I have to tell you that Levi-Strauss, who is still alive, a very old man, expresses great bitterness in his old age about what he takes to be the displacement of the importance of his own work by what happened subsequently.

现在列维仍然在世，年事已高，晚年他表达了,自己对作品的重要性,后来被取代的痛苦。

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This takes a great deal of physical energy, as well as a great deal of mental concentration.

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This is mostly because it takes a great deal of engineering and technical work, machining and assembly.

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The passage usually gets a laugh, but it takes a great banana to put it over well.

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