You can really decide if you want to commit to it and work on it more or put it on a shelf for a later date.

你就可以决定,你是否想落实它,更多地为它努力或是暂时搁置它，以后再落实。

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A lot of these processed foods have very long shelf lives and therefore can be stored for long periods of time.

很多加工食品为了便于储藏销售,都有很长的保质期

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During the same period when I was first teaching this course, a veritable six-foot shelf of diatribes against literary theory was being written in the public sphere.

我一开始教这门课的时候，文学理论遭到了,公开地谩骂。

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Just so you know." Unbeknownst to the teachers, the actual test which was given to those students was a regular off-the-shelf IQ test.

只有你们知道就好“老师们不知道的是，对学生进行的测试,只是普通的现成的智商测试。

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Tell me what you find on the shelf that sells for 20 cents a pound.

在售货架上,它们的价格达到了20美分每磅。

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You're not going to start for the rest of your life if you ever need to solve a problem with a computer from scratch, odds are you're going to reach for some off the shelf packages or libraries or tools that other people wrote so that people like us don't have to reinvent the wheel again and again.

如果你想用Scratch来解决问题,却使用其他人写的程序,或者利用现成的资料或工具,这样以来,我们的确可以避免做重复性的工作,但却永远学不会编程。

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It gives foods a longer shelf life, and so things like pastries and individual wrapped packages have a very long shelf life, longer than if they don't have Trans fats.

它增长了食物的保质期,让糕点和独立包装的食品等能存放很久,比不含反式脂肪的食品存放时间长

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