Investors appear to be trying to get in early on a long-term bet: Emerging-market economies will get back into their grooves long before the U. s. or Europe shake off the global crisis.

投资者似乎是想尽早押注在一个长期前景上：新兴市场经济体恢复最佳状态将远远先于欧美摆脱全球经济危机的时刻。

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The rain harvesting systems mean that a family member no longer has to walk long distances to get water.

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So it took a long time for the twenty books that we have to get settled on. And we'll talk about how that actually happened,also,still.

所以很长一段时间之后那27本书,才最终被确定下来，我们会谈及,那是如何实现的。

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or if it's over a long period of time and it's an ongoing situation that you want to get rid of.

或者是一件持续了很久的事，你特别想摆脱它。

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It takes about as long to get a container from Long Beach, California, to Shanghai as it does to get one from Shanghai to Chongqing, a thousand miles or so up the Yangzi river.

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"We continue to tell everyone on Capitol Hill you need long-term policies to get long-term growth in the wind industry, " Kelley said.

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They can be frozen, but I rarely store them that way mostly because they rarely last long enough to get wrapped up for long-term storage.

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