Instead of making a clean break, water evaporating from treetops tugs on the remaining water molecules, with that tug extending from molecule to molecule all the way down to the roots.

从树梢蒸发的水并没有彻底地分解，而是拉住了剩下的水分子，这种拉拽作用从一个分子延伸到另一个分子，一直拉到根部。

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Just like the way you would give up smoking you can break the habit and get from a place where you're always feeling down to where you're in the neutral and positive ends of the emotional scale.

就像你戒烟的过程一样，你也能够打破那个负面思维的习惯，从总是为沮丧所困的境况进步到情绪天平的中点和“快乐”那一端。

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In short, education is a powerful way to break the cycle of poverty, ill health, misery, and low status passed on from one generation of women to the next.

简而言之，教育是打破贫穷、健康不良、苦难和地位低下循环的强有力方式，这种循环过去由妇女们代代相传。

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Researchers say the speech impediment appears to stem from a defectin the gene that regulates the way brain cells break down and recycle waste products.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

They had a bad break coming from Africa but that's the way it goes. Uh-uh.

知道黑人奴隶自非洲来很不容易,我们对他们的印象就是如此,错

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And it's a break from the way states have done it previously."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

And Alesana Tuilagi secured the bonus point before half-time, a flowing Leicester break from half-way ending with the powerful wing smashing through a couple of tackles to score in the corner.

BBC: Leicester 62-15 Benetton Treviso

This is a fundamental break from the way legal research has been performed since the mid-1700s, when Sir William Blackstone revolutionized the practice of law by putting English common-law cases into categories.

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That's precisely what so many have found in Kinkade's art: a powerfully nostalgic longing for the way it ought to be, a break from the daily grind and the thousand disappointments that drag us down.

WSJ: Gregory Wolfe: Art in a Fallen World