It takes three to four months to get equipment hooked up, due to a bottleneck caused by a steep ramp up of wind power projects.

由于风力发电项目迅速增多所造成的瓶颈，完成设备与电网的连接需要三四个月。

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Mobley suggests that people signing up for an assistant professorship seek a position where the salary and necessary startup equipment costs are covered for at least a full three years.

莫布里认为，申请助理教授的人们寻求一个这样的职位：它能够提供至少整整三年的工资和必要的、启动设备的费用。 “如果他们不能提供给你这些，那么说明他们根本不需要你。

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In addition to planning the equipment and feeding needs for up to three weeks on the trail, hundreds of hours and hundreds of miles of training have to be put on each team.

除了筹划设备和在比赛途中多达三周需要的食物以外，数百小时和数百英里的训练也是每支队伍必须要进行的。

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Emergency worker Mario Caroli said it took three hours to set up the tent-like emergency room, equipped with high-tech medical equipment.

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