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The art of writing was known long before the time of the great lawgiver, and was extensively practised both in Egypt and Babylon.

写作的艺术被称为之前很久的时候，伟大的立法者，并广泛实行在埃及和巴比伦。

I wondered where the question was leading but didn't have to wait long before.

我不知道我是不是在激她再做个三折，但我不必再拐弯抹角了。

The long black road lay bleak and desolate before them, dimly visible between the leafless hedges.

漫长黑暗的道路，荒凉凄寂地呈现在她们前面，在落尽叶子的树篱之间隐约可见。

The letdown began long before the evening wrapped up, but that was to be expected.

在昨晚到来之前已经有了足够长的预热时间，她是如此的让人期待。

All this shows that there is still a long way to go before women can be completely liberated.

所有这一切都表明了妇女的彻底解放还有很长的路要走。

I know there is still a long way to go before I can really understand who I am.

我知道还有很长的路要走我能真正了解我是谁。

The charm of the plateau goes far beyond the acclamations of the geoscientists; natural landscapes can also move ordinary people. The dozens of rows of glaciers at the foot of Xinqing Peak run several dozen kilometers long, with a thickness of over 30 meters, yet the volcanic hot springs still erupts from them, and the story of fire in the ice has been lasting for tens of thousands of years. The Wulao Peak flies upward in the splashing of the waterfalls running down from the glaciers several hundred meters high, the momentum surpassing any rock waterfalls we have heard of before.

高原的魅力远不止于地理学家口里的啧啧赞叹，许多自然胜景也同样会让我们寻常人感到震颤：新青峰脚下纵列数十道的冰川，长达几十公里，厚过30米，却仍然不能熄灭从中喷射而出的火山沸泉，冰火浴生的故事在那里上映了数万年；五老峰则从高达百米的冰川里下泻的瀑布水沫中飞扬，其气势和声涛胜过我们熟知的任何岩石瀑布。

Two hours before a long run, drink 16 ounces of sports drink.

所以在长跑前的2小时内，我们可以喝16盎司的运动饮料。

Not all of these endeavours have been a success: in the late 1990s, Prof Merton became a partner in the Long Term Capital Management hedge fund, which had $100bn (51bn) in estimated trading positions before imploding in dramatic fashion.

并非所有努力都取得了成功：90年代末，默顿教授成为了对冲基金"长期资本管理"的一个合伙人，这只对冲基金在戏剧性地从内部崩溃之前，拥有的交易头寸估计有1000亿美元。

There are many other specialized doughnut shapes such as old-fashioneds, bars or Long Johns, or with the dough twisted around itself before cooking.

有很多其他专门甜甜圈形状如旧fashioneds ，酒吧或长期约翰，或与周围的面团扭曲本身，方可煮食。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷