Ila Lewis and other jewelry makers say combining the materials into a finished piece generally takes less time than the design process.

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And those instructions, by the way, are very simple: they're things like, take the value out of two places in memory, and run them through the multiplier in here, a little piece of circuitry, and stick them back into someplace in memory.

顺便说一句，那些指令非常简单：,他们从记忆存储器中,取出两个位置的结果，在倍增器中运行，一小部分电路，再将它们插回存储器中的某些地方去。

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Sometimes it's a lot easier to reach into your wallet, pull out a piece of plastic and voila, there are the next several shuttle times.

都是不太方便的,也许伸进口袋，拔出一块塑料来看看，还有其他的班车时间呢。

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I would guess that probably 30% to 50% of you do this everyday, you put a piece of plastic, a synthetic piece of plastic into your eye to improve your vision.

我猜你们有百分之三十到百分之五十的人,每天会做这样的事,将一小片塑料,合成塑料放到眼睛里,来提高自己的视力

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The presence of both Mars and Venus suggests you want to box everything into a neat, ordered, structured way but keeping a piece of jade or carnelian close will help you keep in touch with your fun side."

火星和金星的同时出现表明,你想把东西整洁有序地打包好,随身携带一块翡翠或玛瑙,会使你获得愉悦的心情“

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If I hear lots of buzzing out there, that means you're into it, so hum the piece a little bit to yourself, Musorgsky's "Great Gate of Kiev" Here and Pictures at an Exhibition and see if you can write down those particular symbols.

如果我听到了很多嗡嗡声,就说明你们都投入进去了,那就自己跟着曲子小声哼哼吧,穆索尔斯基的《基辅的城门》,以及《图画展览会》,看看你是否可以写下那些特殊符号来

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