Her frustration flared, and she wound back her arm to throw the Vivisteria into the water.

股挫败感油然而生，她抡起手臂，想把时光花玻璃球扔进水里。

A setup like that costs more than we took. - Apparently he can afford it.

这招看起来花的钱比抢的还要多。- 很显然他付得起。

The construction of the cathedral may have taken 182 years from when it began in 1163.

从1163年开始建造起，这座大教堂大约花了182年的时间才建成。

For stomach and colorectal cancer the effects took ten years and for prostate cancer about 15 years.

对胃癌和结直肠癌则要花10年才能起作用，而前列腺癌则要15年。

All those years we built this place together.

齐心协力花了那么多年才建立起这里。

But it's not worth spending a ton of money on expensive creams, because it's not gonna work.

但是不值得花大笔钱购买昂贵的面霜，因为它不会起作用。

Remember, taking the time to name things descriptively is an investment that pays off in the long run.

记住，花时间给事物起描述性名称是项长远的投资。

If only we hadn't spent so much money on our vacation this year.

想应该大点的房，但不知道么才能支付得起。女：要是今年度假没有花那么多钱就好了。

I have been a fan of basketball since I was five and I spend a lot of time practicing it.

从五岁起就是篮球迷，花了很多时间练习篮球。

" Maybe you could write an account of our ranging, Sam."

他本意是鼓励，却说错了话，山姆此刻最不需要别人提醒的就是从明天起他将面对的命运。他随手翻动些卷轴，" 地图还很多，如果给时间… … 这里乱成团，不过有办法把切都整理妥当，知道能行，但那得花上好多时间… … 唉，说真的，起码要好些年才行。"

From the age of one, ghetto children will be forced to spend at least 25 hours per week attending classes in Danish values.

从岁起，贫民区的孩将被迫每周至少花二十五小时上丹麦价值观的课程。

So, it did -- it worked for a very long time. But when it stopped working, it took them, I think, also a long time to realize it.

所以，它在很长段时间内都起作用了。但当它不再起作用时，想他也花了很长时间才意识到这点。

It may sound silly or fairly simple, but it's the practice that makes perfect and anecdotally, online, people have found it to work after dedicating time to it.

这可能听起来很傻或者很简单，但熟能生巧，在网上，人发现在花时间做这件事之后，才会真的起作用。

From his marriage-day forth, Aleck's grip had been upon the purse, and Sally had seldom known what it was to be privileged to squander a dime on non-necessities.

从他结婚那天起， 亚力克就紧紧抓住钱包，莎莉几乎不知道有幸把毛钱花在非必需品上是什么感觉。

So I picked up some beginner friendly books on public transit design, fell into the world of urban planning content, and spent a little too long playing mini metro.

于是拿起了些适合初学者的公共交通设计书籍，陷入了城市规划内容的世界，花了点时间玩迷你地铁。

At half–past twelve the train stopped at Burhampoor where Passepartout was able to purchase some Indian slippers, ornamented with false pearls, in which, with evident vanity, he proceeded to encase his feet.

十二点半，火车停在布尔汉普尔。路路通在那儿花了很大价钱，才买到双缀有假珍珠的拖鞋。他穿起这双拖鞋大有自命不凡非常体面之感。

The translation of a few pages of German occupied an hour; then I got my palette and pencils, and fell to the more soothing, because easier occupation, of completing Rosamond Oliver's miniature.

几页德语的翻译花了小时;然后拿起调色板和铅笔，开始做更舒缓的工作，因为更容易工作，完成罗莎蒙德·奥利弗的微型画。

There was a man walking around the garden center the same time I did, and he saw me take these muscari flowers and he told me that they are going to seed everywhere once the flowers are done.

当在花园中心挑选这些葡萄风信时，有男人正好也在逛，他看到拿起这些花，就告诉等花谢了之后，它会到处播种。

In one of his essays, Stephen Jay Gould notes how a hero of his named Henry Edward Crampton spent fifty years, from 1906 to his death in 1956, quietly studying a genus of land snails in Polynesia called Par tula.

斯蒂芬·杰伊·古尔德在篇散文中指出，他起名为亨利·爱德华·克兰普顿的主人公花了50年时间，从1906年直到l956年去世，不声不响地研究波利尼西亚的种名叫柄眼蜗牛的陆地蜗牛。

The College Board phased out the old SAT requiring students to spend 3 hours filling in the bubbles manually as of spring 2024: the test is shorter and completely digital and international and U. S. students take it on computers.

自 2024 年春季起，大学理事会逐步淘汰了要求学生花 3 小时手动填写试卷的旧式 SAT 考试：新 SAT 考试（用时）更短且完全数字化、国际化，美国学生上机考试。