"They often don't mean anything by themselves," Mr. Crawford said. "But when you put them all together, they take on a life of their own."

克劳福先生说：“在大多数情况下，如果单独地看，它们并没有任何意思，但是，当你将它们放在一起时，它们就会呈现出他们的生活了。”

youdao

I sent them in about a week ago, but I haven't heard anything back yet, so I thought I'd stop by and see, but I guess you haven't looked at them yet .

我大概一周前就寄了它们，但还没有收到任何回复，所以我觉得我应该过来看看，但我猜你还没有看过它们。

youdao

All those areas are essentially controlled and regulated by IDS itself; we can hardly do anything about them.

所有那些区域基本上都是由IDS本身来控制和管理的；我们几乎不用做任何事情。

youdao

"If they can get the work done and walk into your casting office and you cannot tell by looking at them that they've had anything done,that's O.K."

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A couple of really interesting consequences of that, by the way, one of them is, it says, anything you can do in one programming language you can do in another programming language.

一些真正有趣的后果是，顺便说一句，其中之一是，它说你在一种编程语言中,能做的事情,在另一种语言中也能做。

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But in the meantime you see that we can't mess with conventional systems by imposing the individuality of our will on them and expecting anything to change.

所以，我们不能,以个人的意志改变,一个事物在惯例中的意义。

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Congress can now force citizens to do anything it wants, simply by taxing them for not doing what it wants.

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And near none of them were running anything produced by Microsoft back then.

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She added that none of the samples tested by the FSAI had "anything in them that was unsafe to eat" and insisted there was "no evidence" to suggest the food was unsafe for human consumption.

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