It took a long time to wash the mud out of his hair.

花了很长时间才把泥从他头发上洗掉。

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It took her a long time to get ready for church.

她花了很长时间才准备好去教堂。

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They took a long time to mend the roof.

他们花了好长时间修缮房顶。

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That is the amount of time it took Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal to capture a historic image on film.

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Seems very simple, but took Beethoven a long time to iron all this out and make this perfect melody, the prototypical melody in a way.

似乎很简单,但是花了贝多芬很长时间来琢磨,最后做出这段完美的旋律,这段典范旋律

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I don't know if you know this, but for a long time when movies took place in New York,

我不清楚你是否知道，很长一段时间，电影里发生在纽约的场景，

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And it took a long time for that to be told to the American people.

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The first is, it took a long time for this meeting to come to fruition.

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It took a long time, some four years, but the board finally let the CEO go.

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