for a time

基本解释

For a time my mother and I lived with my grandparents, Nathan and Anna.
有段时间，我和母亲与外公内森、外婆安娜住在一起。
If you selected a start date for a time in the future, the deployment process will begin at the specified time.
如果您选择了将来某个时间作为开始日期，那么这个部署过程将在这个指定时间开始。
For a time the fallout was deadly.
在一段时间内是致命的影响。

The Fulbright Teacher and Administrator Exchange Program offers a true exchange -- meaning two people trade jobs for a time.
And the Aristotelian view held for a long time, but eventually it started to crumble in the light of more data.
而亚里士多德的观点在很长时间里得到了认同，但最终还是崩溃了,在越来越多的数据面前。
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it's very hard for the professors to schedule a lot of individual time for the people who can't make it.
教授很难为那些没法按时考试的考生另外安排时间。
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Amy returned to Northeastern, but for a time she lived at the house in Braintree.
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