A nickname is a shortened form of a person's name. A nickname can also be a descriptive name for a person, place or thing.

别名可以是一个人姓名的缩写，也可以是有关某人、某地、某事物的描述。

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A nickname is a shortened form of a person's name. A nickname also can be a descriptive name for a person, place or thing.

昵称是一个人名字的缩写形式，也可以是一个人、地方或事物的描述名称。

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A nickname is a shortened form of a person's name. A nickname also can be a descriptive name for a person, place or thing.

别名是一个人名字的缩写形式。也可以是一个人、地方或物品的描述性名称。

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A nickname can also be a descriptive name for a person, place or thing.

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So, "It's like" is good in comparing an object, person, place or thing to something else.

所以，“It's like”句型在比较物体、人物、地点与事物的时候非常有用。

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It's one thing to know your place in the universe, or to know the fundamental laws of physics.

知道自己在宇宙中的位置，或知道物理的基本定律是一回事。

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Rather, his haunting, beautiful paintings are reflections (which explains the frequent appearance of mirrors), a piecing together of recollections of a specific place or thing at different times.

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Instead of every robot building up its own idiosyncratic catalogue of how to deal with the objects and situations it encounters, Rapyuta would be the place they ask for help when confronted with a novel situation, place or thing.

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And I will keep on reaching out and seeing if there are other formulas or other ways to jigger this thing into place so that we get a better result.

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