Mary had feared the day she would draw a blank during a presentation.

玛丽担心自己在演讲时头脑短路了。

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That means, for example, realizing that you’re writing zero words for your novel, day in and day out, exactly as your blank calendar makes painfully clear.

那意味着，比如你发现一天天地过去，而你“史上最棒的书”却没有动过一个字，就像你锻炼计划的日历上空白一片的惨淡景象。

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"So, people just all day long, fill in the blank after the line of the day," Smith said.

“所以，大家整天都在玩这个填空游戏？”史密斯问。

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Your day may start as a blank canvas, but Santa Fe has plenty of local colour to paint it with.

BBC: Daily deal: Getaway to Santa Fe

We had hardcopy e-mails and printouts from the intervening time, but the back-ups were virginally blank of the last business week and a day.

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Embryonic stem cells are blank cells found in four- to five-day-old embryos, which have the ability to turn into any cell in the body.

CNN: FDA approves human embryonic stem cell study