The task won't feel so overwhelming if you break it down into small, easy-to-accomplish steps.

如果你把这个任务分解成一个个容易完成的小步骤，就不会觉得那么难以应对。

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"Not knowing the law doesn't mean the law will treat you any differently if you break it." says David Allen Green, a lawyer from the UK. So, do you think we'd better spend a minute or two thinking about the words or emojis we use on social media before we press "send"?

“不懂法律并不意味着当你触犯法律时，法律会对你网开一面。”来自英国的律师大卫·艾伦·格林说。那么，你觉不觉得我们应该在按下“发送”之前，最好先花一两分钟思考一下我们在社交媒体上使用的文字或表情符号？

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But if you break it, a surprising result will follow.

但一旦你打破它，就会有惊人的结果出现。

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So things break if you try-- if the computer tries to take you too literally so it would not be correct generally to do something like that.

如果你把它分开-,那么电脑会逐字逐句地解析,你拆开写的代码,由此得到的结果一般都是错误的。

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The word "carbohydrate," as you might imagine, if you ever thought to break it down means the combination of carbon and water.

碳水化合物这个词,如你所想,如果你把它进行拆分的话,就是碳和水的结合物

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And what we want to say of course is, look, just like it's still your body, even if you break your arm.

因此我们可以说，即便你摔断了胳膊，你的肉体也还是原来的那个。

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If you break it, as Colin Powell remarked in another context, you own it.

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The principle that if you break it, you buy it.

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Now, if you break it, you made a mistake, it's the wrong thing to do, but you own it and then you got to fix it and do something with it.

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