long
adv. 长时间地; 很久地; (多)长(时间); 始终
adj. 长的; 长期的; 长音的
v. 渴望
Long means a great amount of time or for a great amount of time.
Repairs to the cable did not take too long...
电缆的维修没有花太长的时间。
Have you known her parents long?...
你认识她父母很长时间了吗?
A long event or period of time lasts for a great amount of time or takes a great amount of time.
We had a long meeting with the attorney general...
我们和检察总长开了一个长会。
She is planning a long holiday in Egypt and America...
她计划去埃及和美国度长假。
You use long to ask or talk about amounts of time.
How long have you lived around here?...
你住在这一带有多长时间了?
He has been on a diet for as long as any of his friends can remember...
在朋友的记忆中,他一直都在节食。
A long speech, book, film, or list contains a lot of information or a lot of items and takes a lot of time to listen to, read, watch, or deal with.
He was making quite a long speech...
他的讲话颇为冗长。
This is a long film, three hours and seven minutes.
这部电影较长,有3小时7分钟。
If you describe a period of time or work as long, you mean it lasts for more hours or days than is usual, or seems to last for more time than it actually does.
Go to sleep. I've got a long day tomorrow...
睡觉吧。我明天还得忙呢。
She was a TV reporter and worked long hours...
她是个电视台记者,总是工作到很晚。
If someone has a long memory, they are able to remember things that happened far back in the past.
Long is used in expressions such as all year long ,the whole day long, and your whole life long to say and emphasize that something happens for the whole of a particular period of time.
We played that record all night long...
我们整晚都在放那张唱片。
Snow is sometimes found all summer long upon the highest peaks.
有时候山峰上整个夏天都有积雪。
1. a comparatively long time;
1. desire strongly or persistently
1. primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified;
2. primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified;
3. of relatively great height;
4. holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices;
5. of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot')
6. used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively long duration
7. involving substantial risk;
8. (of memory) having greater than average range;
9. planning prudently for the future;
10. having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains";
1. for an extended time or at a distant time;
2. for an extended distance
desire, wish, hope, expect, want, long
这些动词都有"希望"之意。
yearn, long, thirst
这些动词均含"渴望"之意。
as (或 so) long as
一直,整个时间里
只要
be long
很长时间才能发生(或到达)
in the long run
长期地,长远来看;最后
long time no see
(非正式)(问候语)好久不见
not by a long shot
决不(可能)
so long
(南非)在此期间,与此同时
take the long view
从长远考虑;做长远打算
any longer
用更多的时间
as long as 或 so long as
在…的时间之内
既然;因为
以…为条件;只要
before long
很快
long ago
以前:在现在以前的一个时间或一段时间
很久以前:很久以前的一个时间
long in the tooth
变老
no longer
不再:现在与以前不同
not long for
不大可能在…中存在很久
I was a tired man when the long race was over.
我跑完长跑后疲乏极了.
At ( long ) last he knew the meaning of life.
终于,他知道了生命的意义.
The inscription of the monument has worn away over a long period of time.
年深月久,碑文已经磨灭了.
He did not agree until I had talked to him for a long time.
我劝说了半天,他才肯了.
It was a long story with many ands.
这故事说来话长,有许多细节.