He then keeled over and fell flat on his back.

然后他就倒下了，仰面朝天。

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Sometimes we all expect our birthday to be a grand, joyous occasion and then it turns out quite flat.

有时候，我们都希望我们的生日是一个盛大、快乐的时刻，然后它变得非常平淡。

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The best way I found to stop the cramp is to stand up keep your foot flat then push your ankle back and your knee forward.

我发现阻止抽筋最好的办法就是站起来，保持脚平放，然后向后推你的踝关节，向前推你的膝关节。

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Then they rubbed the clothes on flat pieces of wood, squeezed out the water and hung each piece to dry.

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And then I could put a flat end here and I could put phosphorus here.

然后我把一个末端平面放在这儿,一块磷放在这儿。

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And then at the end of the process I have another whole step from B-flat back to C, and that gets me back to my octave in that fashion.

最后一步,从降B回到C是一个全音级,然后完成了整个八度

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On a big up day like we had today, you would expect volume to be well, well, well above average, not just like 8% on the Nasdaq and then flat on the NYSE.

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So I think stocks could fall perhaps 10% and then remain flat for the rest of the year.

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It moved through hoods, beanies and "Cat in the Hat" hats on to baseball caps first turned sideways and then with a flat brim (the polar opposite of the redneck and preppy artfully turned trend) and the current reinvented trend for "the bucket, " preferably from Louis Vuitton or Ralph Lauren.

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