Americans use another expression that is similar in some ways to down to earth.

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And here in the middle of the page a little ways down: My love's striped black-and-white cotton frock, jaunty blue cap, white socks and brown moccasins were not quite in keeping with the large, beautifully cut aquamarine on a silver chainlet which gemmed her throat, a spring rain gift from me.

在这一页中间偏下的地方：,我的小情人穿着黑白条子的棉布裙，带着鲜艳的蓝色帽子，白袜子和亮皮鞋与她脖子上那条优美的,蓝宝石项链有些不协调,这是由于那场春雨我送给她的礼物。

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Once you're doing this on your own, -- especially, for example, on exam 2, which is a ways down the road, you won't be able to look at those steps, so you need to make sure that you can go through them without looking at them, but for now we can look at them as we are actually learning how to draw the Lewis structures, and rather just go through them step-by-step, it's more interesting to do it with an example.

每当你要画一个路易斯结构的时候，特别是，比如，在第二次考试中，在不远的将来，你将看不到这张表，因此你需要确保自己在不看这张表,的情况下也能按照上面的流程来画，但是目前我们是可以看着这张表,来学习如何画路易斯结构的，而相比于一步一步地讲，通过例子来演示一下会更有意思。

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Well, there are four principal ways that composers signal to us the whereabouts of the down beat.

以下有四条主要途径,是作曲家用来告诉我们重拍在哪里的

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But Russia itself has no worse loss for the United States right now could find ways to keep us so tight down in the Middle East for a decade that we could do nothing else.

俄罗斯现在还没有对美利益造成太大损害,有办法,让我们紧紧围绕在中东问题上,在十年内我们只有束手无策。

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