duration of time

基本解释

Temporary - Code written with a plan to throw away in a short duration of time.
临时的——开发的代码打算在短时间内抛弃掉。
It may seem like your camera is capturing an instant in time, but in reality, it’s capturing a duration of time equal to your shutter speed.
看上去你的相机是为了凝固瞬间，但实际上，它也可以通过快门速度捕捉过程。
Smile at two neighbors. However, it’s hard to concentrate on these five improvements for a long duration of time, and inevitably, one or two will get lost in the shuffle.
然而，想要长时间的集中这5件小事并坚持下来，却很难，总会有一两件在混乱中不可避免的被遗漏掉。

The rise time and the peak energy and the sustained duration of some of these sounds are highly detrimental to our hearing.
某些声响的起始，高峰以及持续阶段,对我们听力的损害,是极大的。
斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选
Today we're going to move away from the first dimension of music that we've been looking at, which is duration, or time, and begin to work with the second, which is pitch, and melody.
今天我们要结束对音乐的第一个维度的学习,即时值,或者说拍子,并开始讨论音乐的第二维度,即音高与旋律
耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选
We talk in terms of high pitch and low pitch although we'll fine tune that next time, and then we have this idea of duration or time, which we tend to write out in symbols that move from your left to right.
我们是从高低方面来谈论音高,即使我们将于下次讲解曲调的问题,我们已经有了音符时值或时间的概念,我们倾向于用符号来表示,时间是从你的左边向右边移动的
耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Finally, and perhaps most significantly, the increasingly fragmented way in which the public consumes its news and information no longer guarantees that a boffo piece in the Wall Street Journal will set tongues-a-waggin for any meaningful duration of time.
FORBES: PR's Mandate in 2013