| 释义 | 
		long-timeˈlong-time, long‧time /ˈlɒŋtaɪm $ ˈlɒːŋ-/ adjective [only before noun]    - Encourage long-time employees to take early-retirement.
 - My husband and I are biologists and long-time farmers in your area.
 - The general tendency among long-time employees, said the study, is not to think of leaving.
 - Trading in works of art needs a deep purse and long-time backing.
 - Windsor played the long-time head of a boys' secondary school swallowed up by a grammar school to form a comprehensive.
 
   ► long-time friend/lover etcNOUN► friend· Whatever transpired between the two long-time friends must be really serious.· Roy Barraclough, a long-time friend and colleague, joked with Mr Dawson less than 24 hours before his death.    having existed or continued to be a particular thing for a long time:   a long-time supporter of civil rightslong-time friend/lover etc  |