The wheels of language run so smoothly that one rarely bothers to stop and think about all the resourcefulness and expertise that must have gone into making it tick.

语言的齿轮运作得如此顺畅，以至于人们几乎从未想过要停下来思考那些能使语言变得更加优美的智慧和专业知识。

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Stop and think about that statement.

停下来思考这一陈述。

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There can be many advantages to being single if you just stop and think about it.

如果你仅需停下来想想看，单身是有很多优势的。

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But this, if you stop and think about it takes the traditional balance of things and throws it out of proportion.

但如果你再想想,正是这个特点,取代了传统模式里的均衡,并把这种均衡完全舍弃

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Most cultures around the world, if you stop and think about it, don't use musical notation.

很多世界上的其他文化,如果你停下来想想,并不使用音乐记谱法

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Musical notation is a particularly Western phenomenon and when you stop and think about it only we in the West, and by West what I mean is the United States and Canada and Western Europe and Russia, parts of South America, only we use musical notation and we use it principally for our high art music.

音乐记谱法是西方所特有的,你可以停下好好想想,只有我们这些土生土长的西方人,所谓西方,我指的是美国,加拿大,还有西欧和俄罗斯,包括一部分南美国家,只有我们使用音乐记谱法,并且我们把音乐记谱法应用于高雅音乐

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But at some point you have to stop and think about what the next steps are.

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"There's a natural summing up, of having the guys stop and think about where they are, " Leary said.

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Stop and think about these terms, and you have to agree that words aren't merely passive instruments of expression.

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