Whereas atmospheric storms arise in a matter of hours and last for days, magnetic tempests develop over decades and persist for centuries.

大气风暴出现在几小时内，持续几天，而磁暴形成要几十年，持续几个世纪。

Within a matter of days she was back at work.

仅仅几天之后，她又回来工作了。

Greece may also be in default only for a matter of days or weeks.

当然希腊的债务违约可能只是几天，或者几周的事情。

Thus, producing a fairly robust community site is now a matter of days, not weeks or months.

因此，产生相当可靠的社区站点现在只是几天而不是数周或数月的事情。

Even if Mr Berlusconi leaves office in a matter of days, an election could not be held until January.

就算贝卢斯科尼的辞职只是几天的事情，大选最早也得在明年一月开始。

This growth can even happen within a matter of days.

这种成长可不是一天两天的事。

It burned for 10 days and released a cloud of radioactive matter that spread over a wide area of the USSR.

它整整燃烧了10天，产生的放射性物质云笼罩了前苏联的大片地区。

Is it true that the earth's crust does a 180-degree rotation around the core in a matter of days if not hours?

地球的外壳将会在几天如果不是几小时之内的话围绕地心旋转180度的说法是真的吗？

The IOC later indicated events would be postponed for a matter of hours, rather than days, adding that China was fully aware of the problem.

国际奥委会随后指出，赛事有可能推迟几个小时，而不是几天，并补充说中国完全意识到这个问题。

Although Gordon Brown indicated today that a decision was imminent, speaking about a matter of days, there was surprise in Washington over his prediction.

尽管布朗今天表示，决意已迫在眉睫，这些天，华盛顿方面的态度已超乎他的预料，令人惊讶。

JPMorgan is in the process of acquiring Bear Stearns after the investment bank's liquidity evaporated in a matter of days earlier this month.

在本月的若干天之前，这家投资银行的流动资产严重缩水，目前，摩根大通正在并购贝尔斯登。

And a lousy earnings season may prove them correct in just a matter of days.

再过几天，糟糕的收益季可能就会印证他们的看法。

We're not talking about a crisis that will unfold over a year or two; this thing could come apart in a matter of days.

我们说的不是过一两年才会出线的危机，这种危机在几天的时间内都会发生。

“The person will die within 30 days, ” Mr. Gallegos said matter of factly, as if he were talking of fixing a broken carburetor.

这个人30天内就会死的。

U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Alexander Vershbow said Thursday "additional understandings" are likely to emerge between the two countries "in a matter of days."

美国驻韩国大使弗什博星期四说，未来几天，美韩两国可望达成“附加了解”。

If you have a single application, or if all your applications are migrated prior to the run time migration, the rolling migration may be accomplished in a matter of hours or days.

如果您只有一个应用程序，或者您所有的应用程序在运行时迁移之前已经进行了迁移，那么滚动迁移将会在大约几个小时或几天内完成。

"I can't let you do that," she says, envisioning, no doubt, the chaos that would descend in a matter of days.

“我不能让你做”她说，脑海中浮现出如果这么干，几天之内毫无疑问会降临的种种混乱。

The amount of electricity a consumer has available to complete household chores could change in a matter of seconds, hours or days — placing great importance on the need for robust storage methods.

一个消费者可使用的以完成家庭琐事的电量可能会在几秒钟几小时或几天内改变，-完美的存储方法的需要有很大的重要性。

Over time, a discovery was made that by rolling the fish in rice that had been soaked in vinegar the fish was fermented in a matter of days rather than months.

随着时间的推移，人们发现可以把鱼肉卷在醋浸过的米饭中，和以往那种发酵几个月的方式比起来，这种方法仅用数天就可以发酵完。

No matter how she tried to fill her days, she was always within sight or earshot of the work next door.

不管她怎么着努力来填充她的日常生活，她总是看得到或者听得到邻家的改建工程。

The expensive blooms look dazzling to begin with, but start to wither within a matter of days.

如此昂贵的花朵在最初看起来都是赏心悦目的，但没过几天就会慢慢的枯萎。

Then we took a series of swift steps in a matter of days to answer Qaddafi’s aggression.

随后，我们在几天之内迅速地采取了一系列步骤来回答卡扎菲咄咄逼人的行动。

We can assign teams of writers the task of creating a book in a matter of weeks, sometimes even days.

我们能让一个作家团队，在几周甚至几天内就完成写出一本书的任务。

Now it aims to speed up the methane production cycle from years to a matter of days at the same time as cutting the need for more land to bury garbage.

现在他们的目标是加快甲烷产品的生产周期，从几年变成几天，同时减少对掩埋更多垃圾的土地需求。

Third, from the border, companies can deliver a customized product, whether that's an engraved cell phone or a custom mechanical part, to a U.S. buyer in a matter of days.

第三，在美墨边境地区，生产厂家可以将从刻字的手机到机械零部件在内的定制的产品在数天内交到美国买家的手里。

Now comes a study finding that it’s possible to increase the brain’s gray matter quite quickly—in only a matter of days.

现在，一项最新的研究发现，不需要这么久，大脑增加灰质的速度更快——是以“天”计算的。

I have no patience these days for jerks, for trivia — kindness and humility matter most to me.

我对那些琐事和无聊之人毫无耐心，那些善良和人性才是我最关心的。

Keeping children safe -- a matter of almost obsessive concern among American parents these days -- seems to have both positive and negative outcomes.

要保证孩子的安全--对于当今美国父母对孩子过分关心的这个问题，似乎既有正面又有负面的影响。