When I look in the mirror, I'm proud of who I am even those "broken" parts that for so long seemed impossible to love.

当我照镜子时，我为自己感到骄傲，即使是那些长久以来似乎不可能被爱的“破碎”的部分。

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When I've been needed so much for such a long time, it's hard to step back and feel unnecessary.

在我被如此需要了这么长一段时间之后，很难退一步，并且觉得自己是多余的。

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"Animals will be displaced for so long that, when the water does recede, it will take a while to get back to their original habitats," he said.

他还说“当洪水退去之后，动物们还要被收留很长一段时间，因为回到他们原来的栖息地需要一段时间。”

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"I was one of these teenagers, and so I know how difficult it can be to break this habit when it's been with you for a long time,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

And I still believe that in Africa we have been going through this kind of pressure for a pretty long time, so I believe that when it comes we can handle it and lift the cup on Friday,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Bush, on the other hand, seemed pretty baffled for a lot of it, and there were some moments when he paused for so long before speaking that I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown.

CNN: Jessi Klein's presidential debate blog

But the pendulum of capital-markets regulation in America has swung in one direction for so long that when it started to reverse course, it was bound to do so with a vengeance.

ECONOMIST: Wall Street deregulation

Why pursue this matter for so long when it was clear from the get-go that the law against revealing the identity of a CIA agent working secretly in the field had not been violated?

FORBES: Fact and Comment