A new invention means sheep do not have to be sheared – the wool just falls off.

一项新的发明意味着羊不必被剪毛–羊毛就会脱落下来。

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It's a pretty easy job, but one with lots of downtime—which means you'll have plenty of time to catch up on reading, do homework or study for an exam.

这是一份非常简单的工作，但有很多休息时间——这意味着你有足够的时间阅读、做作业或准备考试。

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Note that this means, unlike vowels, intervening H and W characters do not act as a barrier to combining runs of letters with the same code.

请注意：这意味着，与元音不同同，插在中间的字符 H 和 W 不会对组合相同代码的字母形成障碍。

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"In a case where we do not have a lot of rainfall, it means we are going to lose all the crops.

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In other words, what is there--which is a kind of way of talking really has to do with what Gadamer means when he talks also about die Sache, the subject matter.

换句话说，存在,确实和伽达默尔所说的,事情本身有联系。

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I think that what you have to do as a young person is develop your human capital and that means knowing how to do things.

我认为作为一个年轻人 你们应该做的,是发展你们的人力资本,而这意味着你们要知道怎样做事情

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That means a longer wait for the water to do its damage, and that means people waiting longer to leave their homes.

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However, according to Lou Callister, a lawyer in Salt Lake City, the quantity of red tape in California means that Utah remains a friendlier place to do business.

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