For half an hour I sat with straining ears.

我竖起耳朵坐了半个小时。

100 foot drop into the water and you were never afraid.

崖顶离水面一百尺而你毫不畏惧。

And they were talking about exactly five minutes.

他们聊了五分钟。

He spoke in his most important and official voice, and talked for twenty minutes.

他用他那重要官员的嗓音说了二十分钟。

The eyes looked at her thoughtfully for a full minute.

那一双眼睛，沉思地上下打量着她有一分钟。

400 pounds of it! Come here, come here, come here. You're going to love this.

400磅！过来，过来。你会喜欢这个的。

But it's going to be a massive 4100 milliamp hours.

但它的电量有4100毫安时。

We've got to go in a good metre from the top here.

我们要从这上面挖出一米深。

It took me a minute to figure out what the heck was going on.

我花了一分钟才回过神来。

In 1998 fully 71% of 16- to 24-year-olds admitted drinking in the previous week.

1998年，16-24岁的青少年中有71%的人承认前一周喝了酒。

In 2001 fully 45% of the minority population of England and Wales lived in London.

2001年，英国、威尔士中的少数人口中有45%住在伦敦。

He spent nearly an hour getting dressed. He looked at himself often in the mirror.

他花了1个小时的时间用来穿戴。他数次打量镜子中的自己。

I want you to get plenty of sleep, and stop worrying.

我要你睡得的，不要担心。

Instead, intense fighting ensued that led to three years now of protracted battles.

然而，随之而来的是愈演愈烈的战斗，这场持久战打了三年之久。

However, it took nine years to do this.

然而，它花了九年时间才完成。

The longest Sedaris book signing lasted over 10 hours.

要知道，赛达里斯最长的签售会持续了10个多小时。

It took her six months to woo reluctant partners into a coalition.

她花了6个月时间才说服了那些不情愿的伙伴加入她的联盟。

All told, a whopping third of the world's population had caught the virus.

最终，感染这一病毒的人数达到了世界总人口的1/3。

Nothing was seen of him for four hours.

四个小时，他消失得无影无。

The grace of his movement was singular—it was the pantomimic expression of a lady-killing career.

他的一举手一投以令女性为之倾倒。