So here we're talking about how food comes to the table. what happens just materializing it into fish sticks. We didn't just go out to the river and poured out the fish sticks.

因此在这我们将探讨食物的制作过程,什么让鱼变成冻鱼条,并不是可以去河里,把冻鱼条直接倒出来。

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If it doesn't work, change it and just keep revising it, eventually something good comes out of it.

如果行不通就换一个主题，一直修改下去，直到写出好的作品。

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In other words, if you look too closely at a picture or if you stand too far away from it you don't see it clearly it's out of focus but if you achieve just the right distance from it, it comes into focus.

换句话说，如果你站得离一幅图画太近,或太远都无法看清它,它在焦距之外,但是如果你站在合适的位置上，焦距就对准了，画就清晰了。

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