| 单词 | to need long | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto need long  7.  As complement to verbs which take the noun phrase a long time as direct object. Chiefly in  to need long,  to spend long,  to take long.Quot. ?a1425   appears to be an isolated early example of this construction.In the 16th and 17th centuries, a parallel construction with the noun phrase long time, as to need (also spend, take) long time, is often found; cf. long adj.1 and n.1 Phrases 2a(a). ΚΠ ?a1425    MS Hunterian 95 f. 140v, in  Middle Eng. Dict. (at cited word)  				Þe member..nedeþ longe or it be souded. 1694    R. South 12 Serm. II. 79  				We should quickly find, that the largest Stock of Humane friendship would be too little for us to spend long upon. 1763    W. Gordon Universal Accountant I.  i. x. 78  				How long will it take to be full in this case? 1783    tr.  Comtesse de Genlis Adelaide & Theodore III. lxix. 277  				My son..hastened us to our toilets. Mine did not take long. 1834    Monthly Repository Dec. 882  				It don't need long to guess who drowns. 1839    Universalist Union 6 July 550/1  				It does not require long to put such threats in execution. 1881    Sunshine Jan. 20/1  				I would rather learn from you. Will it take very long? 1901    ‘A. Hope’ Tristram of Blent xxv. 336  				He had been wondering how long they would take to think of the lady who now held the title and estates. 1937    Boston Sunday Globe 24 Jan. 52/4  				Miss Churchill didn't need very long to answer this. 1970    Christian Sci. Monitor 12 Aug. 9/1  				She didn't spend long on the streets ‘hustling’ for a place to sleep. 1981    P. Streeten et al.  First Things First vii. 146  				Waiting for incomes to rise until hunger and malnutrition are eradicated would take too long. 2005    M. O'Connor Bitch Posse v. 68  				How much longer will this take? When can I see her? < as lemmas | 
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