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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It's a very long time ago now, back in the decade before last, in the century before this one, but save for the friends who did a hog roast round a camp fire, I can't recall better food at a wedding.

这是很久以前的事了，差不多是二十年前的上个世纪，除了有一次是大家聚在篝火旁边烤猪，我再也想不出来比那更棒的婚宴了。

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This was the very first major lesson of the Tao and a very long time ago; so long in fact that it would be impossible to measure as you think of time in your region of domain.

这就是道在很久之前的第一堂主要课程，而事实上这是如此久远，以至于要用你们领域中的时间尺度来衡量是不可能的。

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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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