It would have been better to have thinned the trees over several winters rather than all at one time.

当初要是分几个冬天来疏剪树木，会比一次性疏剪要更好些。

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It took me a very long time to get over the shock of her death.

我过了很长时间才从她去世的震惊中恢复过来。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Ecologists use the term "succession" to refer to the changes that happen in plant communities and ecosystems over time.

生态学家使用“演替”一词来指植物群落和生态系统随时间发生的变化。

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Didn't want to go to school." Bullying is defined as negative behavior repeated over time against the same person.

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It's also going to be the process of watching an artistic form unfold over a very exciting period of time.

更是一个观察某种艺术形式在一段,刺激的时间里展现的过程。

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One way is to say, if I do a full revolution, I think of the speed as a distance over time.

一种方法是,如果我转完整的一圈,我认为速度就是距离除以时间

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Yet, the stock market chooses now as the time to roll over into a potential correction?

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Having said all that now's not the time to go over, you know, this could have happened and that could have happened.

BBC: Interview with Sir Bobby Robson and David Davies

Finally, as Mr. Anwar's Sept. 16, 2008, claims of having enough defectors at the time to take over government and Mr. Najib's tolerance of the Front's dubious takeover of the Perak state legislature in 2009 demonstrate, both are comfortable with the ambiguities of Malaysian politics.

WSJ: Joseph Chinyong Liow: Malaysia's Doppelganger Election