"What we are seeing China is that wages are gradually converging to those levels in the U.S.and Europe, but this convergence is going to take a very long time."

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

And again it doesn't always take a very long time.

而且不用很久。

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You had to be very confident because it was going to take a long time, a fantastic amount of labor, a tremendous amount of money to do that.

你不得不相信,建造一座蜂巢墓要花费很长时间,大量的劳动力,以及庞大的金钱支持

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Well, you can't adopt the policy of "I'm going to wait for this pig to dance " and when it does I'm going to reinforce it" because it's going to take you a very long time.

那么，你就不能说,“我要等这头猪跳舞,然后再对它进行强化“,因为这会花掉你很长的时间。

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