He was always breaking things.

他总是打碎东西。

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I don't know what's wrong with me today: I keep breaking things.

我不知道我今天怎么了，我总是打破东西。

youdao

I don't know what's wrong with me today; I keep breaking things.

不知道今天我怎么了，老是打碎东西。

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and the cats were running out from under the bed and things breaking.

连猫也从床底下跑出来了，东西也被弄坏了。

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They knew enough to understand how hard they could push without breaking things (the rate of return they demanded would soon ossify into a ritualized expectation of stable growth rates, a big enabler of the rise of a middle class that could basically withdraw from the risk frontier).

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