It must have taken me a half hour to sense that maybe some key to an answer could result from reversing the word "Thanksgiving" — at least that suggested a verbal direction, "giving thanks."

大概过了半个小时左右我才意识到，问题的关键也许在于把Thanksgiving这个字前后颠倒一下——那样一来至少文字好懂了：giving thanks。

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A kind word to the man behind the deli counter can get your day bouncing in the right direction.

而对店员的一个句话和蔼的话会让你一天重新找回到正轨。

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The reason is that Zhou's ideas are complicated, but are permeated by unified direction, which, in a word, is honesty and compactness in style.

究其原因，周作人的散文理念是相当博杂多源的，而博杂中却又贯穿着统一的指向，概而言之这一指向即散文抒写的真实简明。

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In a word, individual investors remain split over the short-term direction of stock prices.

FORBES: Investor Sentiment Split Over Short-Term Market Direction

Cutting directly to the chase, recent economic data suggests that we may (the key word at this point in the game) be seeing a shift in the direction the winds are blowing.

FORBES: Despite Concerns in Europe, Analysts Continue to Upgrade Stocks