I only use that on special occasions, so it's as good as new.

我只在特殊场合用，所以它完好如新。

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How strange that something so simple as a walk on the beach could suddenly mean so much.

在海滩上散步这么简单的事突然间变得意义如此重大，真是奇怪。

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They didn't want people staring at them as they sat on the lawn, so they put up high walls.

他们不想自己坐在草坪时被人盯着看，所以修筑了高墙。

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So it can be seen as having no harmful effects on the environment.

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So I wrote my dissertation on Byron as a result of that-- nothing complicated, no deep reason for doing these things.

所以我论文写的就是关于拜伦的-,没有太多的考虑，就是因为我喜欢。

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so being interested in the wider world and what's going on abroad as well as here in the UK.

以便于让孩子们对更广阔的世界，像国外和英国本土发生的事情感兴趣。

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His memory survives not so much on reality as on possibility, not so much on what he would have done, but on what we once believed.

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To use a silly example to make the point, you may have been laboring so long as so hard on perfecting your idea for a VCR that you fail to see that the world has moved on to digital recorders.

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Whether a particular sector should be regulated by government (via laws and so on) or whether it can be happily regulated by normal market forces (such things as reputation and so on) depends in part upon the costs of each method: the transactions costs.

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