那时离九月份还有很长一段时间。

September was a long way off.

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还有很长的路要走。

There is still a long way to go.

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这种风格要走进人们的日常生活还有很长的路要走。

There is still a long way for the style to go into people's daily life.

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One of the things you kind of speculate about, and wonder about, why did some cities send out lots of colonies, some cities send out only a few, and others none at all for quite a while.

也许你感到疑惑的一件事是,为什么有些母邦派出了大量移民,另一些只有一些移民,还有其他母邦在很长时间根本没向外移民呢

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