可是，从长远来看，这样花我更多的钱。

But it cost me money in the long run.

youdao

这样花很长时间，但那些终身监禁的人还是会这样做。

This takes an incredibly long time, but men serving life sentences have just that.

youdao

像巧克力或者花这样的礼物是准许的。

Gifts like chocolates or flowers are allowed.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

It's true of Windows, it's true of the Sequel Databases from guys like Oracle, the Google guys were at it for a number of years before that thing really took off.

视窗“系统就是这样，甲骨文公司的关系数据库也是这样，谷歌公司的创立者花了很多年,才让一切走上正轨。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

This should all sound incredibly familiar, like I'm just repeating myself in terms of photoelectric effect, because essentially that's what I'm doing, and that's one reason we spent so much time and did so many problem-set problems on the photoelectric effect.

这应该听起来极其熟悉，就像我在重复自己在讲光电效应时所说的话，因为基本上我正是在这样做，这也是我们在光电效应这个问题上,花这么多时间,做这么多习题的原因之一。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

I don't want to spend the whole weekend implementing just a little pop up calendar and frankly it probably would take at least that long to get something that's as interactive and dynamic as something like this that works across all browsers and so forth.

我并不想花费整个周末的时间来实现,这样一个小的弹出式日历，而且,可能至少还要花那么多时间，从而使它,能够在所有浏览器上都能有良好的交互性并且是,动态的，等等。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选