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 Tangle¹ 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 dressing2 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。

1 tangle   

n.纠缠；缠结；混乱；v.(使)缠绕；变乱

参考例句：

• I shouldn't tangle with Peter.He is bigger than me.我不应该与彼特吵架。他的块头比我大。
• If I were you, I wouldn't tangle with them.我要是你，我就不跟他们争吵。

2 dressing   

n.(食物)调料；包扎伤口的用品，敷料

参考例句：

• Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself.别花那么多时间来打扮自己。
• The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes.孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。