But his business turned out to be fly-by-night: he collected people's deposits on new cars and then disappeared with everybody's money.

可是，他的公司原来是骗人的。他收了人们买新车付的定金，然后拿了这些钱就不见了。

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Rachel seems to be the one fly in the ointment of Caroline's smooth life.

雷切尔似乎是卡罗琳平静生活中惟一的破坏因素。

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I'd love to be a fly on the wall when he tells her the news.

他把这消息告诉她时，我想悄悄在旁观看。

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He wanted to be the first person to fly around the world.

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Should be a pretty simple fix in fact we should be able to do it on the fly, here. What should I change?

这应该有一个很简单的补救措施,实际上我们匆匆忙忙的改好它,这儿，我该怎么改呢？

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I don't know if you know how a spark plug works, but for the electrical current to fly into operation in a spark plug, the two points of contact have to be gapped.

我不知道你们是否知道,火花塞是怎样工作的，在电流通入火花塞中使它运转之前，两个接触点之间需要有空隙。

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They are already likely to be without fly-half Jonny Wilkinson and flankers Lewis Moody and Alex Sanderson.

BBC: Vickery to miss summer tour

England team manager Martin Johnson will be relieved fly-half Flood came through the clash without injury, as did lock Louis Deacon.

BBC: Leicester 33-11 Gloucester

The 26-year-old, however, wanted to be a fly-half and the Blues promised him an extended stint at the pivotal number 10 position.

BBC: Cardiff Blues not blaming Sam Norton-Knight