The twenty-two meter long rocket would put a little scientific satellite into orbit as one of the events of the international geophysical year.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

And this is a very fast speed, of course, it's about 700 million miles per hour. So, one way to put that in perspective is to think about how long it takes for a light beam to get from earth to the moon. Does anyone have any guesses? Eight seconds, that sounds good.

当然这是一个非常快的速度，它大约是每小时7亿英里,为了更形象化，我们,看看光从地球到月球,需要多少时间，你们猜猜是多少？,8秒，猜的不错。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

I put off using Facebook for a long time.

很长时间以后我才开始使用Facebook.

便利的社交媒体 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

When the flowers came, Paul put them in water and then he took a long,hot bath.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

So long as I say I'm gonna put a string here, it doesn't matter what string it is, GetString is gonna take care of the job of getting it from the user.

把变量放在这，我们先不要管这个string是什么，GetString会负责,从用户那里获取该值。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Schirra fired a rocket exactly long enough to put his spacecraft in the same orbit.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket became all but inevitable as Pyongyang informed international agencies it will put a satellite into space sometime between April 4 and 8.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12