一共花了42天。

Altogether it took forty-two days.

但是...42是什么？

But... forty-two for what?

他42岁且身体健康。

He was forty-two years old and in excellent health.

42年前，他离开学校去Jets队打球。

He left that school forty-two years ago to play for the Jets.

“怎么研究一种植物要花42年？”我问。

How do you spend forty-two years on one species of plant? I asked.

每一个球队至少有一名球员将会穿着42号球衣。

At least one player from every major league team will wear the number forty-two.

他们发现，自1990年以来，美国的孕产妇死亡人数上升了将近42%。

They found the number in the United States rose almost forty-two percent since nineteen ninety.

其中42%的人，没有拿到签证，或是选择不申请签证。这是你如何打击经济的。

Forty-two percent of them did not get visas or chose not to get visas. This is how you wipe out an economy.

每一种颜色的光线亦以不同的角度反射。反射角度有细微差别，但均在40至42度范围内。

Each color is reflected at a slightly different angle, but all between forty and forty-two degrees.

我想，正是由于这个原因，要是有人花了42年时间来研究一种植物，即使没有出什么很新的成果，你们也会觉得很宝贵，对吗？

And I suppose that's why you value someone who spends forty-two years studying a single species of plant, even if it doesn't produce anything terribly new?