It beats us all the time - not just with eating, but with anything we try to do and end up quitting, caving in, doing it despite our best efforts.

它在所有的事情上都打败了我们——不仅仅是关于吃东西，还有关于任何我们尝试做但最终以放弃告终的事情上，并且屈服，尽管我们做出了最大的努力还是失败了。

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Contemporary illustrations show cathedral spires collapsing, vaults caving in, high scaffolding keeling over in a chaos of planks and poles.

同时代的画作显示了大教堂尖塔的倾倒，拱顶的塌陷，高高的脚手架倒在一片八七八糟的木板和柱子中。

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There's something called a trench box-a metal case that holds back the sides of the walls-used to stop the walls from 5 caving in when you dig deeper than 5ft.

有一种叫做沟槽的东西——一种用来阻止两面沟壁往下坍塌的金属容器——当你挖土超过5英尺(约1.52米)深时，用它来防止沟壁坍塌。

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Only this week, Mr Chirac's government was busy yet again caving in to demands for public-sector pay rises after 600, 000-1m protesters took to the streets.

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Barton once crawled for 8 feet within a a 6.5-inch-high space in a cave and is one of only a few certified for the dangerous business of underwater caving. (Six people died in cave-diving accidents last year.) Along with fellow caver Nancy Aulenbach she was featured in the 2001 Imax film Journey Into Amazing Caves, which was narrated by Liam Neeson.

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Far from caving in, the supermarket chain has issued a counter-writ against Levi-Strauss claiming that its business has been damaged by unjustified threats.

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