The rain will take the shine off my boots.

这场雨会使我的靴子失去光泽。

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Any one of our workmen could take the shine off the new foreman.

我们工人中的任何人都能超过那个新来的领班。

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China, positive attitude to take off the dragon, may you fly higher and higher, and the sun and the moon together as eternal as the stars that shine like stars.

中国，正以龙的姿态腾飞，愿您越飞越高，与日月同辉，像恒星一样永存，像星星一样闪亮。

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If she can arouse her sleepy Congress party she might make a mockery of the feel-good campaign and take the shine off the BJP's India.

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That would take the shine off the Dow Jones index, which has risen 25% in the past year, and convince many American fund managers to exit Asia for safer returns in deposit-bearing investments at home.

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This may further take the shine off Mr Brown's government but, paradoxically, voters who fear an economic slowdown may be less inclined to trust an untested team of young Conservative leaders rather than the man who, as chancellor, oversaw many years of sustained growth.

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