1·The interview lasted half an hour.
会见持续了半小时。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·The fight only lasted five rounds.
比赛只持续了五个回合。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·The games lasted only half the normal time.
这场比赛只持续了正常比赛时间的一半。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
4·Apart from a brief interlude of peace, the war lasted nine years.
除了一段短暂的和平，那场战争持续了九年。
—— 《牛津词典》
5·The earthquake was preceded by a loud roar and lasted 20 seconds.
地震之前有一声巨响，持续了20秒钟。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
1·The concert only lasted an hour, so we felt we were getting short measure.
音乐会仅仅持续了一个小时，让我们有一种缺斤少两的感觉。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·To me, the basic training was a lifetime of challenges that lasted six months.
对我来说，基础训练是持续六个月的一生的挑战。
3·The Little Ice Age lasted from roughly 1300 until the middle of the nineteenth century.
小冰河期大约从1300年持续到19世纪中期。
4·The one-on-one music therapy sessions each lasted 60 minutes and took place twice a week.
一对一音乐治疗课程每次持续60分钟，每周进行两次。
5·In order to spin off the Moon, Earth would have had to rotate so fast that a day would have lasted less than three hours.
为了脱离月球，地球必须旋转得如此之快，以至于一天持续的时间少于三个小时。
1·Other epochs have lasted millions of years.
其他世纪都延续了上亿年。
2·It may have lasted a long time.
它也许曾延续了一段相当长的时间。
3·The ancient Olympic Games, which began in 776 BC, lasted for over 1100 years.
古代奥运会始于公元前776年，延续了1100多年。
4·The boom, which lasted for most of the last decade, imploded in 2008 when the credit crunch cut off its life blood.
2008年的信贷危机切断了经济的生命线，进而让这段延续了差不多10年的繁荣期宣告终结。
5·That system lasted nearly three decades; but only now, nearly 40 years after its collapse, is anyone acknowledging the need to replace it.
该制度延续了将近30年；但是直到如今，在这一体系崩溃之后40年，才有某些人意识到需要改弦易张。