How time flew! At the end of the term, there was one important event that he was afraid of — the final exam.

时间过得真快！在学期结束的时候，有一件重要的事情使他害怕——期末考试。

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Over the course of time, we've become looser in applying the term "mental disorder" to the expectable aches and pains and sufferings of everyday life.

随着时间的推移，我们将“精神障碍”这一术语用于日常生活中可预期的疼痛、痛苦和折磨的界限愈加宽松了。

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The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to a vehicle transporting people into the far future.

“时间机器”一词，由威尔士创造，现在普遍用来指将人类运送到遥远未来的交通工具。

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The Federal Reserve suggested again that short-term interest rates are likely to remain near zero for some time.

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Yeah. So what I think of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a very long-term conflict that has lasted for a long long time.

是的，所以我认为巴以冲突,是一个长期的冲突,它已经持续了很长的时间。

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Research on subjective wellbeing-- the term that psychologists use to capture happiness essentially has been going on for very, very long time.

对幸福的研究-,心理学家用这个词来描述快乐,已经进行了很多年。

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So even if controls on capital outflows can buy time in a short-term panic, it is time bought at a high longer-term price.

ECONOMIST: Time to turn off the tap?

Just a dozen schools reported that 80% or more of graduates found full-time, long-term legal jobs.

WSJ: Law Grads Face a Brutal Job Market

Only about 8% of 2011 graduates landed full-time, long-term jobs at larger firms with more than 250 attorneys.

WSJ: Law Grads Face a Brutal Job Market