(A) You may come to my house anytime this afternoon. Let's talk about various things after a long time.
(B) You can come and see me anytime this afternoon. Let's enjoy talking a lot together after a long interval.
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interval 「1.(時間の)間隔、合間」「2.(場所の)間隔、隙間」
at brief / short intervals 「少し間をおいて、しきりに、しばしば」 a fine / sunny intervals 「晴れ間」
at quarterly intervals 「毎季に、1年に4回」 followed at rapid intervals 「矢つぎ早に続けられた」 after a two-week [a week's] interval 「2[1]週間の間をおいて」 showers with sunny intervals 「雨ときどき晴れ」
There was two hours' interval to the next train. 「次の列車までに2時間の間があった」 an interval of ten feet between columns 「10フィートの柱間距離」
2.弟が来年2月の入試に合格しますように。3回も受けたことになるんだもの。
(A) May my younger brother succeed in the entrance examination next February! He'll have taken it three times.
(B) I pray my little brother may pass the entrance exam in February next year. He'll have sat for it for the third time.
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succeed 「成功する、うまくいく」
succeed at one's profession 「自分の職業[専門職]において成功する」 He succeeded at the second attempt. 「2度目の試みでうまくいった」 suceed in life 「出世する」
He succeeded in getting into the college that was his first choice. 「第一希望の大学にうまく入学した」
If we succeed with our plan to do... 「もし...しようとする私たちの計画がうまくいけば」
He glued a regular map of England and Wales to a piece of wood. Then, using a saw with a very small blade, he cut the map into pieces, following county borders. He tried the puzzle with his students, who had fun fitting the pieces together and learned their geography in the process.
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wood 「木材」
cannot see the wood for the trees 《英》「木を見て森を見ない;小事にとらわれて大局を見失う」(《米》cannot see the forest for the trees)
who had fun fitting the pieces together and learned their geographhy in the process