Now, in a measure of how much the world has changed the character most men mention as their favorite is, Miranda Priestly.

现在男人们喜欢的角色发生了质的变化，从这一点上就能看出世界的瞬息万变，现在他们更倾向于米兰达。

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And being really fully as inclined to laugh as scold — for I esteemed it all girlish vanity — I at length relented in a measure, and asked.

我真是想笑又想骂——因为我估计这完全是女孩子的虚荣心——我终于有几分心软了，便问道。

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You know, they both appeared in a measure my children: I had long been proud of one; and now, I was sure, the other would be a source of equal satisfaction.

你知道，他们俩多少有几分都像是我的孩子：我对于其中的一个早就很得意；而现在，我敢说，另一个也会使我同样满意的。

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In Bou Saifi, a village south of Baghdad, gunmen killed at least 24 people Friday in what authorities say was an attack by al-Qaida members against families of men linked to Awakening Councils, a pro-U.S.Sunni force that helped Iraq fight extremists and regain a measure of relative calm in recent years.

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You know, if you want to measure the potential energy of something in a gravitational field, you have to define the zero somewhere, right, because it's arbitrary. You can set it anywhere you want. It's the same with enthalpy.

你知道，如果你想测量重力场,中某种东西的势能，你需要，在某处定义一个零点，对吧？,因为势能的值是任意的,你可以把它设定在。

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I don't want to have to deal with heat escaping to the outside environment in a way that might be difficult or complicated to measure or calculate.

我可不想处理跑到,环境中去的热量，那测量或,计算起来会非常麻烦和复杂。

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