Watch paint dry or water boil, or at least put away your smartphone for a while, and you might unlock your next big idea.

看着油漆变干或水烧开，或者至少把智能手机放在旁边一会儿，你可能就会蹦出下一个精妙的想法。

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Instead, dry winds from the desert keep the clouds away at night.

从沙漠吹来的干旱风却让云夜晚可以远离这里。

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One good tip someone gave me is to take old clothes and just throw them away when you move on, instead of washing and waiting for things to dry.

有人给我的一个好建议是带些旧衣服，当你继续前进时扔掉就可以，而不是洗完等它们晾干。

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It was so dry that horses and cows started to dry up and blow away in the wind.

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The land became so dry that wind easily blew away the top soil.

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They are also setting backfires to clear away dry brush, and using helicopters and airplanes to drop water and fire retardant.

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The treatment starts with a red wine and vitamin E exfoliant applied all over the body to scrub away dry skin cells.

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Great ideas dry up and go away (underground or to other enterprises), and great execution evaporates, a victim of turf wars, unclear direction, self-protectiveness and lack of accountability.

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Weiss believes this climate change initiated a mass migration away from dry-land farming to the creation of irrigated fields along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, allowing the people to build some of the earliest institutions of civilization.

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