通常是一些小东西，但我就是需要买它。

Usually it was something small, but I just needed to buy it.

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即使是买一些小东西，也要经常去肉店、熟食店和卖鱼的店，同时还要保持非常友善。

Shop at butchers, delis and fish-sellers regularly, even for small things, and be super friendly.

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尝试制作一些小东西并送给别人。

Make things, and give them to people.

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As we said, Newtonian mechanics does work in most cases, it does work when we're discussing things that we can see, it does work even on things that are too small to measure.

在大部分情况下都适用,对我们可以看到的东西,它都能适用，甚至对一些小到,无法测量的东西它也可以适用。

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I don't know if I'd eat it if it were put in front of me, but anyways, I'm told that it looks something like this, that you have the custard with little fragments of plum inside.

我不知道,就算这东西曾经放在我面前，就算我吃过它，但是无论如何，但是有人告诉过我有些东西长得像这样，如同在一些小块的梅子,放在乳蛋糕里面。

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