他们以煮面条为食，以保持低预算。

They planned to keep the budget low by living on boiled noodles.

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因此，那些说话不太容易的人可能会被误解为比那些很容易就能保持对话的人更难相处。

Consequently, people who do not talk very easily may be incorrectly understood as being less agreeable than those who have no difficulty keeping up a conversation.

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他们谦虚地谈论了他们为让油轮保持不沉而付出的英勇努力。

They talked modestly of their valiant efforts to keep the tanker afloat.

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That is, most processes that we're concerned with, they'll happen with something held constant like pressure or temperature or maybe volume.

这句话是说我们所关注的大部分过程，发生的时候都是保持某个量为常数,比如压强，温度或者体积。

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To be systematic, I'm going to build this tree depth-first left-first.

为了保持系统性，我将要把这棵树设置,为深度优先和左边优先。

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It's Laura who cries at Dean's abandonment, while he maintains this composure, this masculine composure: "he'll be all right." But, the sadness here is surely Sal's.

倒是劳拉先为迪安的抛弃哭了，萨尔相反地保持了镇静，这种男人的镇静：,“他会一切顺利的“，但这里最大的悲伤必然是萨尔的。

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