They hand me the receipt, and I sign for that receipt, and then I give it back to them.

他们给我收据，然后我在上面签字，然后把它交还他们。

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They saw first a cloud of dust and then the car that was stirring it up.

他们先是看到一团尘土，接着就看到扬起尘土的那辆车。

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A child first labels the household pet cat as a "cat" and then generalizes this label to other animals that look like it.

孩子先把家养的宠物猫称为“猫”，然后把这个称呼扩大到其他看起来像猫的动物。

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United States government agencies and America's airplane industry realized then that it was possible to build an even faster plane.

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The simile sets out to establish the moral polarities between good and evil, but it then works almost systematically to undo that understanding.

这里的比喻开始创造出善与恶之间的,两极性，然而后来它又几乎自动的抹去了这种理解。

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and then invest it in a company or an idea that has a very high chance of not working.

然后投资一家公司，或者等待一个良好的机会。

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Gingrich, with less than a week to go before an election where most analysts put him as an unlikely victor, announced that he would convene a new Gold Commission, and then that it would be chaired by (pro-gold) Reagan Gold Commissioner Lewis E.

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And that sort of manifested itself on that first morning when he very kindly asked me if I'd like a drink of water and got me some water, and then just minutes later repeated that question, and then repeated it again and again over that first day we were together.

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What could be more foolish that sinking your emergency fund into stocks and then find that you need it and have to sell off your investment at a particularly bad time in the market?

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