Many a budding “ do - it - yourself ” has found to his cost that one cannot learn a skilled craftsman ' s job overnight 好多跃跃欲试“自己动手”的人花了代价,才发觉手艺活并不是一夜之间就学得会的。
These people spend so much time on the internet that their virtual lives become more important to them than their real lives 这些人花太多时间上网了,对他们而言,虚拟世界变得比真实世界还要重要。
Many of us spend long sedentary hours at work to achieve financial security and meet society s demand for productivity 我们多数的人花很长的时间在工作上以达到财务稳定以及达到社会对生产力的需要。
After 10 months of labor , the new school was completed on may 6th , 2004 . students happily sang to celebrate the opening of the school 慈济人花了将近一年的时间施工,在2004年5月6日新学校落成移交,学生开心唱歌庆祝。
It had taken nearly a year to create the toggle switch and about twice that time to build the flashing microbes 一群人花了将近一年的时间,才创造出基因开关;另一群人则耗费了近两年的时间,才设计出会闪闪发光的细菌。
With our second - half performances this season being less than convincing , it took a herculean effort by the ten men to hang onto all three points 我们下半场的表现可能不那么令人信服,但那是10人花了极大的气力才坚持到最后并拿到三分的。
Consumers usually welcome price breaks , but not when they recently purchased a product , only to see everyone else able to buy the same merchandise for significantly less 消费者通常欢迎降价,但不是他们刚买了一产品,却发现其他人花更少的钱买到它。
I don t want her to be destroyed so quickly . people in this world spent a lot of money going to the moon , but they spend very little on taking care of the earth 我不喜欢她那么快破掉,世界的人花很多钱去月亮看看,但没有花很多钱照顾这个地球,这不行啦!
" nowadays if a manager spends big money on a player , people expect immediate goals or man - of - the - match performances . it doesn ' t always work like that . you need to settle and adjust “近来如果经理人花很多的钱在球员上,人们就很会期待他的进球以及他的表演。其实并不是这样的。你需要定居然后适应这里。 ”
On average , individuals in the industrialized world devote three hours a day to the pursuit ? fully half of their leisure time , and more than on any single activity save work and sleep 工业化国家的人民每天平均花三小时看电视,足足占掉一半的休?时间,而且除了工作和睡眠之外,看电视是一般人花掉最多时间的日常活动。