In fact, if I ran one of these things, it would just keep crunching away.

我们主要来谈谈时间问题，实际上，让我运行这些东西。

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instead, he threw in a six-week-old puppy and said "keep it!" and ran away. So I got a puppy.

但他却扔进来了一只六个月大的小狗，说“养它吧！”然后跑掉了。于是我有了一只小狗。

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They ran it when he was away, for example.

比如，丈夫出远门时，妻子照料家庭。

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