quite a long while的意思|示意

In other words, schemas cannot quite do everything DTDs have long been able to, while on the other hand, schemas also cannot express a whole set of further rules one might wish to impose on documents.

换句话说，模式无法执行DTD长期以来能够执行的所有操作，而从另一方面来讲，模式也无法表达人们希望对文档施加的进一步规则的完整集合。

With its long legs and huge size which meant a very long stride, it could probably run pretty fast and for quite a while.

有了长腿和巨大的体型，这意味着每一步都很大，它也许能够跑得很快也能坚持很久。

It has been quite a long while since I wrote my last blog, sometimes when things get busy it's easy to forget to renew.

确实有很长一段时间没写博客了，有时候太忙了很容易就忘了更新。

Or, if you have been together a long time, you may discuss an old wound or problem that has troubled you or your partner for quite a while and has prevented deeper love from flourishing.

如果你们在一起已经很久了，可能一些旧伤或是旧的问题会让你或是对方感到烦恼，从而阻止你们更深的爱下去。

Yeah, just learning the terms for all the relatives takes quite a while. Did they move to America a long time ago?

A 是啊，光那些七大姑八大姨就要记好一阵。他们家很早就去美国了吧？

But it's going to be a long while before fat is used in that value-neutral sense, and in the meantime we all know exactly what most people mean by it: you are disgusting, worthless, not quite human.

不过“胖子”要变成中性词仍需要一段时间，同时我们都知道大多数人对这个词的理解：你很讨厌，一文不值，你还是个人吗！