Two-and-one-half minutes after the Apollo Eleven launch, the first-stage rocket separated from the spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

And that's really a placeholder for the comma-separated list of values that I put after those quotes.

这其中还有一个逗号分开的有值的占位符,我把它放到了引号之后。

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So he becomes a boy after he's separated from his mother.

所以离开母亲之后他才成为一个男孩。

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We don't have adequate reason to conclude that it's something that existed before I was put together, it's something that will be recycled and continue to exist after I fall apart, after my body decomposes, after I'm separated from my body, or what have you.

我们并没有充分的理由来断定,灵魂是在我被组装起来之前就存在了,它会被循环利用,并且在我解体后依然存在,我的身体分解了之后,在灵魂与肉体分离之后,或者其他说法

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