But the recession took a bite out of charitable giving.

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It doesn't do anything but at least that's one bite out of this problem.

虽然这个没起到任何实质性的作用,但是我们朝着我们要解决的问题迈出了一小步。

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It's unbearable. It's really uncomfortable, it makes you want to bite your nails or just run out of the room.

这真让人难以忍受。你感觉很不自在，这让你想咬指甲或者干脆夺门而出。

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They all died. And it was--not everybody, but in France 1,500,000 people died, and that's a huge demographic chunk, it's like a big shark took a big bite out of your basic pyramid of your demographic tree.

都死了,的确是,倒不是所有人,但是在法国有一百五十万人阵亡,这在人口比例中占很大一部分,就好像一个大鲨鱼照着,人口树的基底咬了一大口

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It's deliberate that a lot of the examples in lecture are fairly short and bite-size so that you can actually focus on pulling out the key ideas without getting distracted by line and lines of code.

很多的演讲中的例子,是短小的,因此你们可以集中于提取其中的主要思想,而不是被一行行的代码给分心。

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