It sounds as if they might have made a dreadful mistake.

感觉似乎他们已经犯下了一个大错。

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They looked as if they hadn't washed in days.

他们看起来好像有好几天没洗澡了。

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They tore into their food as if they were starving.

他们狼吞虎咽地吃起饭来，好像饿坏了似的。

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Some artists like this process because they can draw on the metal as easily as if they were using a writing pen.

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Act for them, to them. Don't act as if they are just some bunch of Philistines out there who can't appreciate your art.

为他们表演，想他们表演，不要把它们当做俗气的人,所以不能欣赏你们的艺术。

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So, the wind over the face of deep, now it's demythologized, So it's as if they're invoking the story That would have been familiar and yet changing it.

现在，掠过混沌表面的气流是没有神话色彩的，它似乎是从故事中引用的,它看来熟悉却又稍有改动。

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Approach generating new ideas for your existing clients as if they were new business.

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So everyone could sign their names when they shat, as if they were at Buckingham Palace.

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In other words, we are treating people as if they weren't subjective, but instead were machines.

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