Mary: I like the break period best.

玛丽：我最喜欢课间休息。

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For a long period of time and in many parts of the country, a traveler was a welcome break in an otherwise dull existence.

很长一段时间，在美国的许多地方，旅行者是一种受欢迎的打破沉闷生活的方式。

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A flash mob is a group of people who come together suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a short period of time, and then quickly break up.

快闪族，是指一群人突然在公共场所聚集，在短时间内做一些不寻常的事情，然后迅速散开。

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And archaeology supports this picture of merging of peoples, a picture of the merging of peoples, rather than conquest or even large-scale immigration, because the new settlements in this period show such continuity with the past, not a complete break, not the initiation of something radically new.

考古学肯定了民族的融合，多个民族相融合的图景，而不是征服或者是大规模的移民，因为这一时期新的定居表明,与过去的连续继承，而不是完全的断裂，不是完全的新的开始。

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President BARACK OBAMA: This window between now and the August recess, I think, is going to be the make or break period.

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So the next 12 months will prove to be a make-or-break period.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

So we can't afford to put this off, and the dedicated public servants who are gathered here today understand that and they are ready to get going, and this window between now and the August recess I think is going to be the make-or-break period.

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