It beats us all the time - not just with eating, but with anything we try to do and end up quitting, caving in, doing it despite our best efforts.

它在所有的事情上都打败了我们——不仅仅是关于吃东西，还有关于任何我们尝试做但最终以放弃告终的事情上，并且屈服，尽管我们做出了最大的努力还是失败了。

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Likewise, China is foolish to resist a more flexible exchange rate partly because it does not want to be seen as caving in to America's demands, when it is in its own interest.

同样地，中国也不聪明——当它自己有利可图，只部分地出于不想被视为屈服美国的要求的想法，从而就抵制更具弹性的汇率机制。

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Contemporary illustrations show cathedral spires collapsing, vaults caving in, high scaffolding keeling over in a chaos of planks and poles.

同时代的画作显示了大教堂尖塔的倾倒，拱顶的塌陷，高高的脚手架倒在一片八七八糟的木板和柱子中。

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Only this week, Mr Chirac's government was busy yet again caving in to demands for public-sector pay rises after 600, 000-1m protesters took to the streets.

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As a last resort, Menatep might prefer to let Yukos go bankrupt by defaulting on its foreign loans which would drag the case into international courts and give the government a royal headache rather than caving in to the Kremlin's strong-arm tactics.

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Barton once crawled for 8 feet within a a 6.5-inch-high space in a cave and is one of only a few certified for the dangerous business of underwater caving. (Six people died in cave-diving accidents last year.) Along with fellow caver Nancy Aulenbach she was featured in the 2001 Imax film Journey Into Amazing Caves, which was narrated by Liam Neeson.

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