They broke down the door and broke in.

他们破门而入。

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If they broke down in their make-believe he rapped them on the knuckles.

如果他们在假装的时候半途而废了，他就会敲他们的指关节。

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They broke down the door with a big heavy log.

他们用一根粗大的木头将门砸开。

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The researchers broke down the data into race,income and locale and they found even greater differences.

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Now, you know, when we've got our deterministic hats on, we think to ourselves, "There's got to be some underlying causal explanation, some feature about the break-down atoms that explains why they broke down and that was missing from the non-break-down atoms that explains why they don't break down.

现在,你知道,当我们用决定论的观点去分析这个问题时,我们自己寻思着,这背后一定有某种具有,因果关系的解释,某种关于分裂原子的特性,能解释为什么它们分裂了,而由于这种特性不存在于未分裂的原子,因而解释了它们为什么不能分裂

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It may instead have made people reckless, thinking that hospitals and doctors would fix them when they broke down.

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But the Rovers players were forced to hitch a lift on a supporters' bus after they broke down on the M62.

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DeBoer says when they broke down the data into the different types of milk with increasing fat content, the findings were even more striking.

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