He knew that if he picked up normal pebbles and threw them down again because they were cold, he might pick up the same pebbles hundreds of times.

他知道如果他捡起普通的石子再扔下去，因为它们是冷的，他可能会捡起同样的石子几百次。

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She looked right down at me as if she were laughing because she was glad I was standing there.

她低头看着我，好像在笑，因为她很高兴我站在那里。

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Prices were really pushed down artificially [last year] because of such weak demand.

（去年）价格的下跌的确是人为造成的，主要是由于需求非常疲软。

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We were going down all the time because of it, because we could not see what was happening.

因此，我们的业绩一路下滑，也因为我们无法预测会发生什么。

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Of the savings institutions, there were only 1,500; that's probably going down further because a lot of these old savings banks are being converted into commercial banks.

至于储蓄机构,只有1500个,现在可能就更少了,因为很多这类古老的储蓄银行,都逐渐被改造成了商业银行

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> So now that might not have felt like the fastest algorithm but think about what you could have done with that algorithm in each iteration, much like the phonebook up front here, you literally split that problem in two because on each iteration roughly half of you were sitting down and then another half and then another half.

虽然这并不是最快的算法,但如果把这种算法每次迭代,就像刚才查电话簿一样，你便将这个问题一分为二了,因为每一次迭代后只有一半坐下来,以此类推。

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The goods were passed for export at the Port of Dover in Kent because computer systems were down for maintenance on that day.

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In 2006, a pack of six Mackenzie River wolves - a North American wolf - were put down because they were "not portraying their natural behaviour".

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In 1994, Intuit dodged being swallowed up by software behemoth Microsoft largely because regulators were bearing down on the company with antitrust objections.

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