It comes as no surprise to learn that they broke their promises.

得知他们食言并不让人觉得意外。

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They broke the windows out to escape from the fire.

他们打破窗户以躲避火灾。

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If they broke down in their make-believe he rapped them on the knuckles.

如果他们在假装的时候半途而废了，他就会敲他们的指关节。

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The Marines attacked. They broke open a small hole in the door of the brick building.

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Now, you know, when we've got our deterministic hats on, we think to ourselves, "There's got to be some underlying causal explanation, some feature about the break-down atoms that explains why they broke down and that was missing from the non-break-down atoms that explains why they don't break down.

现在,你知道,当我们用决定论的观点去分析这个问题时,我们自己寻思着,这背后一定有某种具有,因果关系的解释,某种关于分裂原子的特性,能解释为什么它们分裂了,而由于这种特性不存在于未分裂的原子,因而解释了它们为什么不能分裂

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He wants to know if they are the same men who so callously broke their father's heart by selling Joseph, his father's favorite, so many years ago.

他想知道他们是否还是老样子,就像他们曾经卖了约瑟夫，伤了他们父亲的心，多年前，约瑟夫最受父亲宠爱。

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They broke up in the summer of 2007, and Alexander began dating other women.

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Yes, they broke the law, but, you know, they're just trying to feed their families.

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