If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students' academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing.

如果该学区发现家庭作业对于孩子的学业是不重要的，它就应该减少或者免除家庭作业，而不是让它们几乎一文不值。

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The trip was nothing if not varied.

这次旅行极其丰富多彩。

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If nothing else showing that you've tried to solve the problem yourself before you take it further, make it clear that you're not just a complainer.

在你采取进一步措施之前，先表现出你已经尝试过自己解决问题，向人表明你不是一个只会抱怨的人。

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But if there were nothing beyond the DNA in cells, life could not exist.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

So, the take-home message is whether you have three photons or 3,000,000 photons that you're shooting at your metal, if you're not at that minimum frequency or that minimum energy that you need, nothing is going to happen.

所以，这里表明的信息是,无论是向金属发射3个光子,还是300万个光子,如果没有达到所需的最低频率,或者最小能量,什么事情都不会发生。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

It's as if "thinking nothing" is not a passive activity, but an active one.

好像“脑子里一片空白“,不是一种被动行为，而是主动的似的。

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Not turn up if there's nothing better to do, not turn up if they can check with their diary or their agent or their other friends, just naturally, automatically, call the taxi and go.

WSJ: The Novelists

With the run-rate plummeting as wickets fell, the arrival of a desperately out of form Paul Collingwood was perhaps not the tonic the England fans would have wanted, but the Durham man is nothing if not a fighter.

BBC: Eoin Morgan seals England series win over Pakistan

In fact, this is hardly any news at all, since IBM is nothing if not planned.

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