1. It takes a long time as well as many experts working together to compile an encyclopedia.
    编一本百科全书，不仅要花一段长时间，还要有许多专家一起工作才行。

2. I will excuse you this time.
    这一回我原谅你。

3. It is time you left home and learnt to fend for yourself.
    你应该离家自立了.

4. It was the first time they had ever met.
    那是他们初次会面.

5. I resent these incursions into/upon my leisure time.
    屡次侵占我的闲暇时间, 我很反感.

6. It´s time that men of good sense and good will to intervene.
    这该是那些头脑清醒和心地善良的人们出面干预的时候了。

7. It is time to make introductions all round.
    是大家互相介绍的时候了.

8. It is mandatory to pay a debtwithin a certain period of time.
    在一定的期间内还债是必须的。

9. It´s time to take politics out of the hands of the plutocrats of the Right and the woolly-minded idealists of the Left.
    该是从右派财阀和头脑朦胧的左派理想家的手中把政治夺过来的恰当的时候了.

10. It was not a propitious time to start a new business.
    这时候开张不吉利.