.. That's true, but he was on the tracks and... This guy was on the bridge.

对，但谁让他就在那侧轨上，而且。,那胖子还在桥上呢。

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The thing is" is the pattern that we use in a sentence to stop people on their tracks.

当你想阻止某人在他们设想的路上走下去的时候，可以使用“The thing is”句型。

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So, if you're looking back, say, from the end of the nineteenth century, it's not easy to see, but you can see these-- don't ever think that history runs on railroad tracks, and all you need is the timetable to show when modernization shows up.

所以,当你回顾历史,从十九世纪的末尾开始,虽然不太容易,但还是可以看出...,别以为历史是在固定轨道上行进的,别以为你只用拿时刻表,就知道新时代什么时候来临

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CD If you put on a CD, we could have-- what's the timing on the Justin Timberlake thing there or any one of the tracks?

如果你放一张，这张贾斯汀时长多少，里面任何一首歌呢？

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