1used when talking about what will happen at a later time or when something is finished 从长远来看
All our hard work will be worth it in the long run.
从长远来看,我们的一切努力都是值得的。
Examples from the Corpus
in the long run/term• Arguably, however, the implications of the Manchester North-West result were to become more apparentin the long term.• However limited its immediateeffects, the ideology of EnlightenedDespotism was important in the long term.• It invites us to reflect on history with a slower pulse-rate, history in the longer term.• The consequences of violating this rule had always been unhappyin the long run and not infrequently in the short.• I don't know what good it did David in the long run because what it did was cost a lot of money.• The funding to do anything, however, must in the long runderive from nationalresources.• But in the long run, it has provedimpossible to continue down this path.• Yet the saving of money, in the long run, was more important to Mowat than the saving of scenery.
2LONG TIMElater in the future, not immediately 从长远来看 → long-term
Moving to Spain will be better for you in the long run.
从长远来看,搬到西班牙对你更合适。
Examples from the Corpus
in the long run• And in the long run. it will help to ensure continuing good health.• By putting their money as well as their trust into credit, they are in the long run paying more, not less.• Besides, in the long run, what good would it do?• But in the long run the outcome of the race between food production and populationgrowthremains too hard to call.• What might I do in the long run?• All our hard work will be worth it in the long run.• He will not in the long runprofit from arrangements that turn the survivingresearchinstitutes into training grounds for emigrantspecialists.• Your educatedboys went at it a little more privately and gracefully, but sometimesdestroyed more people in the long run.• Besides which, in the long run it came down to the word of four people against one.