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It took Lottie a week to get a bedroom ready, a week of hard work and hard cash. There was everything to do, everything to replace or paint. When she was through the room looked so fresh and new that Lottie felt she deserved it more than Bess.
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珞蒂费了一个礼拜的时间才整理好一间卧室，一个礼拜的辛苦日和辛苦钱。每样都得做，每样东西都得换新或油漆。等她把一切都弄好之后，那间卧房看起来又新又舒适，珞蒂觉得自己比妹妹更配住这样的一间房。 |
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It took Mary a long time to pick out a new dress at the store.
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玛丽花了很长时间才从那家商店挑选了一件新衣服。 |
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It took Mourinho's wit, pragmatism, bravado and skill to make sense of the numbers and if Chelsea are prepared to take his significance lightly, they did not deserve him in the first place.
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穆里尼奥是用自己的智慧，实用主义，自信和技巧来使用这么多钱财的，如果切尔西小看了他的这个本事的话，那他们就不配拥有穆里尼奥了。 |
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It took a bit of pressure to make the lid close.
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要稍按一下才能把盖子盖紧。 |
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It took a bite out of the share price of parent company Yum Brands Inc. and forced a city Health Department shake-up that removed the inspector who conducted the review from duty and led to 13 more restaurant closures on Thursday.
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这段影像的播出，导致该快餐店的母公司“云牌国际”的股票价格一下子跌了一大截，同时迫使该卫生部门立即改组，当值官员被撤职查办，还有另外13家餐馆从周四起停业整顿。 |
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It took a combination of unsupervised children and a permissive, highly charged sexual atmosphere and an influx of easily acquired drugs and the wherewithal to buy them to bring about precocious experimentation by younger and younger children.
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不受监管的孩子、宽容而又极度刺激的色情氛围、大量涌入的容易获得的毒品、以及购买毒品所需的资金，这一切结合在一起使得越来越小的孩子得以过早的尝试毒品和性。 |
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It took a decade to recover emotionally and financially.
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用了十年我们才从精神上和经济上恢复过来。 |
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It took a full-scale conservative revolt, combined with a dismal performance by Ms Miers on Capitol Hill, to persuade Mr Bush to withdraw her name in favour of Mr Alito's.
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之后，保守势力全面反弹，加上迈尔斯女士在国会的不当之举，这最终说服布什撤回提名，转而支持阿利托先生。 |
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It took a long time for him to recover from his food poisoning.
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（他食物中毒之后很长时间才康复。） |
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It took a long time for me to come to terms with the changing of this community.
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我花了很长的时间来与社会的变化达成妥协（注:意指勉强使自己与社会变化相适应）。 |
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It took a long time to convince me of his guilt.
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花了很长时间才使我相信他是有罪的。 |
