You cannot live your children's lives for them; you can only be there to pick up the pieces when things go wrong.

你不能替孩子过活，只能在出现问题时帮忙解决。

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Stalin expected to pick up the pieces.

他期待着捡点剩余的渣子。

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After all, they would not have to pick up the pieces.

毕竟，他们不需要去收拾烂摊子。

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Pieces of gypsum broke off. The wind wore them away to a size small enough to pick up and carry for short distances.

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You want to keep spinning your mandrel so that it doesn't melt off the rod and you're going to heat your bead so that it's tacky enough to roll onto the frit and pick up pieces of the glass."

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No doubt America's ever-sophisticated financial markets will be ready to pick up the pieces.

ECONOMIST: America��s financial markets may be about to shrink

And, if it fails, the world will be left to pick up the pieces.

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On the walk back to the office all I could think about was how to pick up the pieces.

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