精品五句-6-It takes sb some time to do sth
[Steven精品五句]
普通句
It takes me a long time.
我花了好长时间。
次级高手句
It takes me quite a long time.
我花了相当长的时间。
高手句
It takes me quite a long time to understand.
我花了相当长的时间来理解。
超级高手句
It takes me quite a long time to understand the meaning of the painting.
我花了相当长的时间才理解那幅油画的意义。
专家句
It takes me quite a long time to understand the meaning of the painting by PICA-SSO.
我花了相当长的时间才理解毕加索的那幅油画的意义。
[Steven解句]
It takes me quite a long time to understand (核心句)，
+ the meaning of the painting by PICA-SSO.（加个理解的对象试试看。）
[Steven精品五句之编辑部的故事]
（One of their partners gave Tangle 1 two tickets to an art work exhibition. Steven accompanied him to go there.）
（他们的合作伙伴送给Tangle两张艺术作品展的票。Steven陪他一起去了那儿。）
Tangle:
Hey, Whose work are you looking at?
嘿！你在看谁的作品？
Steven:
PICA-SSO’s. But I hate him.
毕加索的。但是我讨厌他。
Tangle:
Why?
怎么了？
Steven:
Cuz he makes me look like stupid. I don’t even have an idea about what he wanted to convey by the works.
因为他的作品总是使我看起来很蠢。我甚至对他想通过作品表达的思想一无所知。
Tangle:
Well, it took me quite a long time to understand the meaning of the painting by him.
嗯，我也是花了好了长时间才明白他作品的含义的。
Steven:
But I don’t even understand a single work of his. Does than mean I don’t have a taste for art?
但是，他的一部作品我都看不懂。这是不是说明我没有艺术品位？
Tangle:
Not really, you have a very elegant dressing 2 style. Also you have a very good sense of colors. He is an abstractism artist. Their works are always hard to understand.
不见得。你对服装的品位句很高雅。还有你对颜色的感觉也很好。他是位抽象派画家。他们的作品总是很难理解的。
Steven:
Some of his works look like my 5-year-old cousin’s. But I don’t even understand.
他的一些作品看起来有些象我5岁的表弟画的。但是我还是不能理解。
Tangle:
Believe me! You won’t suddenly understand his works by keep on saying that.
相信我！你一直这样说下去，也不会突然明白的。