Too many people had too little patience for the grunt work necessary for long-term success.

太多的人都没有耐性为以后的成功去做眼下必需的苦差事。

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As long as the operative word is "greed," you can't count on people keeping the costs down.

只要关键词是“贪婪”，你就不能指望人们降低开销。

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Still,law enforcement officials have long warned about the dangers of young people being identified by adults wishing to harm them.

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Clearly, important information is to be conveyed to students from people who settle in the fields for a long period of time.

显然，对某个领域,进行长时间研究的学者,会将重要的信息,传达给学生。

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I guess most people think thirty years is long enough, but that's the way mortgages go ever since.

我猜大多数人都认为30年足够长了,这是抵押贷款的演变过程

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The people are long gone, the water has receded, and here it all sits.

MSN: Scenes of sorrow in the Lower Ninth

"The key thing is to stay focused on the stuff that matters most to the American people in the long run, " he says.

WSJ: Why the IRS Flap Matters Most for Obama

To borough president Molinaro, thank you so much for your leadership at a time when the folks here on this island were obviously going through extraordinarily difficult times, the people of Long Island who are going through really tough times.

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