Liz meant it as a joke but it fell flat.

莉兹的本意是把它当作笑话来讲的，但没成功。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

As it gets colder, it contracts.

当温度降下来时它就收缩。

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Don't ask me to do it. I've got enough problems as it is.

别让我做这件事。我目前的问题已够多了。

《牛津词典》

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The time was in the early 70s, so factory farming was not well-known, was not as dominated as it is today, but it still existed.

那时是70年代早期，工厂化养殖并不为很多人所知,也不如今天这样占主导地位，但当时已经出现了这种方式。

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Instead if we want this pointer to represent the address of something in as much as it points at that address let's just draw an arrow.

如果我们想要让这个指针表示,数据的地址，它指向的地址,我用一个箭头表示。

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With the economy being as it is, it takes both adults in an average household, to work.

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