It took time until the political situation had normalized.

政治局势过了很长时间才恢复正常。

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This process took time and patience and effective trainers.

这个过程需要时间、耐心和有效的教员。

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We took time to stop and admire the view.

我们特意停下来欣赏风景。

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Then she took time out to record her solo CD.

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This way of teaching did not perhaps quite so much for a variety of reasons permeate public school literature teaching, but it was simply, as a result of Understanding Poetry, the way to go. It took time.

尽管这种教学方法可能并没有大范围被应用于,公立学校的文学专业，但是它的确符合教育的发展趋向，这也还得归功于《诗歌鉴赏》，它确实需要更多时间。

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What they show was rats who went through the maze and went through the maze again and again, learned far less than rats who took time aside, chilled out a little bit after a maze, had more margarita.

他们的实验表明,接连不断反复进入迷宫的老鼠，比进行一次迷宫后，稍事放松，来点小酒的老鼠，学到的少得多。

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Many of the players competing in Arizona took time out to watch Woods' statement on television.

BBC: Golf world waits on Tiger Woods comeback after apology

He took time out of his busy schedule to talk to CNN this week.

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And doing all of that took time and patience, and most of all, it took persistence.

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