Yet the government took ten days to beg for (not order) their release.

然而，日本政府却花了十天时间“请求”石油公司打开库存，赈济救灾（注意！政府是“请求”，而不是“要求”）。

It took four months to write a new Constitution. It took ten months to ratify it.

撰写一部新宪法花了四个月的时间，耗时10个月才得到批准。

It takes ten minutes for the results.

要等10分钟才出结果。

For stomach and colorectal cancer the effects took ten years and for prostate cancer about 15 years.

对胃癌和结直肠癌则要花10年才能起作用，而前列腺癌则要15年。

Let's take ten to break it all down.

让我们花十分钟来分析一下。

Happy you taking ten minutes for CNN STUDENT NEWS.

感谢你花十分钟时间收看CNN学生新闻。

It often takes ten years to really know your subject.

要想达到炉火纯青的水平，通常需要十年的时间。

Just take ten extra seconds, and please type out the entire message.

多花十秒钟，把整个留言打出来。

It may take ten years to be sure of what we are seeing.'

也许要用十年时间才能确证我们所看到的。”

The blast caused earthquakes, tsunamis and pyroclastic flows that decimated the land and took tens of thousands of Indonesian lives.

火山爆发引发了地震、海啸和火山碎屑流，摧毁了这片土地，夺走了数万印度尼西亚人的生命。

The plague takes ten years to cross asia, Moving slowly from village to village.

黑死病用了十几年的时间才横扫亚洲 在村庄间缓慢扩散。

An EL takes ten seconds to pass a given point, or two seconds per car.

列车经过某一固定点需要10秒钟，也就是说每节车厢要2秒钟。

We're glad you're taking ten minutes out of your Tuesday to watch our show.

很高兴你花10分钟收看星期二我们的节目。

We've agreed that it takes ten seconds for a train to pass a given point.

你到底想说什么? - 等一下。

Scientists said that it could take tens or even hundreds of years to regrow melted glaciers.

科学家们表示，融化的冰川可能需要几十年甚至几百年才能重新生长。

He wrote his first book in nineteen fifty-five. Take Ten was about life in the army, and included drawings.

他在1955年写了他的第一本书。《小憩》讲述的是在军队里的生活，其中包括绘画。

I think you just took ten years off my life.

我想你只是让我少活了十年。

And it took ten years, but eventually they did it.

花了十年时间，但最终他们做到了。

The report warns that it is possible to overcome these setbacks, but that it could take ten to 15 years.

报告警告称有可能克服这些挫折, 但可能需要花费10至15年。

Pedro says, " Oh, geez, I think you just took ten years off my life."

佩德罗说，“哦，天哪，我想你只是让我少活了十年。