Remember, burning down the Floors' mansion?

还记得弗洛斯的大厦吗，被烧毁的那个。

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When the house is burning down you concentrate on putting out the fire, not on preventing future ones.

当房子都要烧为平地，当然是要全力灭火，而不是防范以后的火灾。

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“It's pretty darn exciting, and a bit crazy”, she says, “to see a bunch of researchers running around burning down a forest.

“这真是太刺激，太疯狂了，”她说道，“看着一群研究人员奔来跑去地烧完一片森林。”

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"I chose to try to make progress, and the concept of burning down a building or lighting a torch just seemed to me to be essentially crazy.

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There had been a rumor that female incendiaries, had been setting fire to fancy houses and had been burning down the Bank of France.

有传言说女纵火犯们,到处放火焚烧妓院,还烧毁了法兰西银行

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Part of the problem is farmers burning down the trees to make way for grazing lands for their cattle.

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But I would back it as a better way to produce meat than burning down rainforests and gobbling up useful farmland.

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Burning down the house, shelter for oysters--one charitably minded couple has done it all to reap tax benefits from their vacation home.

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