The long lifetime of the chlorofluorocarbons is a big part of the problem.

CFC 能够长期存在是这个问题的一个重要部分。

The disease can go years without being seen due to its long lifetime.

这种植物病害由于存在时间长，可以潜伏多年而不被发现。

During my long lifetime of covering the court and four chief justices, they were very strict about holding lawyers to their allotted time.

在我报道最高法院和四位首席法官的这么长时间里，他们非常严格地要求律师遵守分配的时间。

During his long lifetime, he designed over 600 buildings in Brazil and abroad, among them some are the 20th century's most famous modernist buildings.

他一生为巴西和全世界设计了600多座建筑，其中一些是20世纪最有名的现代主义建筑。

The long lifetimes of industrial equipment limit how quickly older, dumber machines can be replaced with cleverer new ones, observes Rainer Brehm, who runs the factory-automation unit of Siemens, a German industrial giant.

德国工业巨头西门子的工厂自动化部门负责人莱纳·布雷姆 (Rainer Brehm) 观察到，工业设备的长寿命限制了用更智能的新机器取代旧的、笨重的机器的速度。