When an old friend moved to Huntington Beach,California - a Pacific coast city nicknamed Surf City,USA - he realized it was time to live his dream.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

It was probably the pivotal point of our friendship when he realized I had actually spent some hours thinking about him and his troubles and he was trying to place that in his tremendously involved and tormented mental categories.

这或许是我们之间友谊的关键时刻,他知道我的确用了许多时间考虑他和他的困境,在他陷入极其复杂的痛苦的精神危机时,他更是急于想了解这一点。

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But he also realized that when they did hit something what they hit what unbelievably massive but also that that mass was concentrated So eventually, this is what we have come to call the nucleus of an atom.

碰到的一定是十分重的东西,而且那些质量,要聚集在非常非常小的空间内,这个就是我们称作,原子核的东西。

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Jean-Michel Cousteau says that's when his father realized he had a mission.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

When Alexander's year long bread making adventure came to its end, he realized that the perfect loaf of bread he was after was whatever loaf he was baking at the time.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

When Ahmet Kursad Demir realized that he could receive an education and continue to play Tennis like he has been doing for most of his life, Ahmet made the journey to the U-S.

VOA: standard.2009.12.14