Turtles went back to the sea a very long time ago and, like all vertebrate returnees to the water, they breathe air.

海龟很久以前就回到了海里，和所有返回水中的脊椎动物一样，它们呼吸着空气。

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You did that a very long time ago.

你们在很长时间之前已经提升了。

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One is about a man. The man lived a very long time ago. He went up to the sun and take fire down.

一个是关于一个男人，他生活在很久以前，从太阳上取来火种。

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Now in the course of this, a student asked a very good question that I should have pointed out a long time ago, and that is: when an orchestra plays or an ensemble plays and they're looking at their music and they're reading their music, do they play a chord?

在这期间，我本该早就提起的，由一个学生提出的非常好的问题是，当管弦乐队演奏或合奏团演出时,他们各个盯着并读自己的那部分乐谱，他们奏出和弦了吗？

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and I think that because... from a long time ago there were, it was just a very diverse city.

而且很久前，这里就是个多元性的城市。

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I held off for a very long time, but I just got mine a month ago. And now I don't know how I live without it.

我拖了好长时间，一个月前才买的。而且现在我不知道离开它该如何生活。

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Rep. Paul would do well to acknowledge that those days passed us by a very long time ago and there is no going back.

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He concedes that seems like a very long time ago.

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Although the East India Company flourished a very long time ago, in a very different world, its growth, longevity and demise have lessons for those who run today's state companies and debate their future, lessons about the benefits of linking a company's interests to a nation's and the dangers of doing so.

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