His decision gives Democrats a 59-seat majority, one short of the 60 necessary to overcome Republican attempts to block legislation.

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So the inventor of the chess game said, "Ok. What I like is on the first block, first square, I would like one grain of rice.

于是象棋发明者说，“好吧，我希望，在第一个方格上，我想要一粒大米。

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All of the businesses are in Madison Avenue, one block away, parallel.

商业机构都在隔这儿一个街区的麦迪逊大道，它跟这条街是平行的。

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So, what you do is you set up a couple of displays, one where the block is stopped, the other one where you take this away with a trap door and it keeps going.

所以,你可以设计几个演示,一个是木块被挡住了,另一个是用活门把木块挪开,使得屏板继续上升

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If you can block one of those people from getting the vaccine, you also stop-- from getting the disease-- you also stop all the people they would have transmitted it too from getting a disease.

如果你可以防止一个人感染疫苗,你同样可以防止...,刚才应该是感染疾病...,你就同样可以防止所有,可能已经接触过病毒的人群患病

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