"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,".

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I was going to say when you first start doing this, even people who have been doing it for a long time still go off on ten-minute daydreams before realizing that their minds were wondering.

我本想说第一次尝试时，但即便是修行多年的人,也会走神十分钟之久,方才意识到自己刚做了白日梦。

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I don't know if you know this, but for a long time when movies took place in New York,

我不清楚你是否知道，很长一段时间，电影里发生在纽约的场景，

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I guess you've already looked at Stocks for the Long Run; you've seen 200 years worth of data.

我想你们已经读过《股市长线法宝》,见过长达200年的数据

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So you don't have to write long papers, but what I'm saying is: the room is there for you to stretch out if you want to do that.

所以我的意思是：,有足够的空间留给你们发挥,如果你们想的话。

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I mean, you've been banging on that pen for a long time and I don't understand why.

我是说，你一直用那支笔敲来敲去，我不明白为什么。

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You know, I've been driving for a long time.

我做司机已经很长时间了。

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I'm going to give you examples now for how to use "How long."

下面我们来看几个例子，看看该怎么使用 “How long”。

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Well according to one school of thought ; there isn't anything particularly revolutionary about monotheism; and the classical account of the rise of monotheism, that has prevailed for a very long time, runs as follows, and I have a little flow chart here to illustrate it for you.

曾经某个思想学派告诉我们,一神论其实没有什么独特的新颖之处;,而它却能飞速崛起，备受重视，盛行了很长一段时间，正如我下面要提到的，我这儿有一些图来帮助你们理解。

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What's important about the construction of St. Petersburg-- I don't know how many of you have ever been there; I haven't been there for a very, very long time-- this city is not like Moscow at all.

那么修建圣彼得堡到底有什么重要的意义呢,我不知道你们之中有多少人去过那儿,我并没有在那个地方逗留过很久,但这座城市和莫斯科完全不一样

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