The conference broke for a recess, but the 10-minute break stretched to two hours.

会议暂时休会，但10分钟的休息延长到了两小时。

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Last year, when attempting to break the record, the cheese broke in half when it was being turned.

去年，这块干酪准备打破世纪纪录时，在翻面的过程中断成两半。

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First we argued that the top one should break but it didn't — the bottom one broke.

之前我们认为先断的会是上面那个，结果先断的是下面那根。

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Break up with you or something? No, I broke up with him.

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Now, you know, when we've got our deterministic hats on, we think to ourselves, "There's got to be some underlying causal explanation, some feature about the break-down atoms that explains why they broke down and that was missing from the non-break-down atoms that explains why they don't break down.

现在,你知道,当我们用决定论的观点去分析这个问题时,我们自己寻思着,这背后一定有某种具有,因果关系的解释,某种关于分裂原子的特性,能解释为什么它们分裂了,而由于这种特性不存在于未分裂的原子,因而解释了它们为什么不能分裂

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Chants of "Nole, Nole" broke out as Djokovic saved two break points and held for 2-1.

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Foster was trapped lbw by Allenby shortly after the break, before Cosker broke through twice to remove Graham Napier and Tim Phillips.

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Things warmed up after the break, as Carvill broke through the Newport rearguard on 51 minutes to convert a one-on-one against goalkeeper Ovendale.

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