The course is a standard year-long introduction to Western civilization.西方文明入门是一门标准的一学年课程。The year-long fight for permission to build the house ended in success.长达一年的争取建房许可的斗争以胜利告终。He has somehow survived a year-long train of defeats.经受了一年来连续不断的失败，他好歹活了下来。