太久

It's better not to outstay one's welcome,especially on a first visit.

最好别呆得太久而惹人讨厌，特别是初次拜访。

We overdid the meat and it didn't taste good.

我们把肉煮得太久，结果味道不好了。

Do what you feel you must, but do not tarry overlong.

做你认为你必须做的吧，但别太久。

It is unwise to linger overlong on doorsteps in these troubled times .

不过，让我们假设你已经热情地邀请我到你的房间来，在这个麻烦不断的时期，在门阶上逗留太久是不明智的。

At this time I ask your pardon, if I have detained him overlong in my service; for I had great need of the knowledge of Men and their tongues which he alone possesses.

此刻若我已留他为我效劳太久，我请求您的原谅；因我急需仅他一人拥有的人类学识和语言。

"A few more days", I decided to take leave, not wanting to overstay

虽然他们邀我'多住几天'，我还是决定告辞，恐怕逗留太久，徒讨人厌）。

Laszlo: I hope we didn't * overstay[5] our welcome.Renault: Not at all.

拉兹洛：希望没有因我们逗留太久而打扰你们。

Following dinner, guests stay for two or three hours, but a thoughtful person is careful not to overstay his or her welcome.

晚餐结束后，客人通常还会呆上两三小时，但体贴的的客人会注意不会逗留得太久，而给主人造成不便。

He will become overtired if you wait too long, and unable to go to sleep as a result.

他将成为过度疲劳如果等待太久，并不能去睡觉了。

However, the record made by Panasonic didn't stay long.

然而，记录所作出的松下并没有逗留太久。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。