The break-down of law and order could result in killing on a massive scale.

法律和秩序的崩溃可能会导致大规模的杀戮。

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Just like the way you would give up smoking you can break the habit and get from a place where you're always feeling down to where you're in the neutral and positive ends of the emotional scale.

就像你戒烟的过程一样，你也能够打破那个负面思维的习惯，从总是为沮丧所困的境况进步到情绪天平的中点和“快乐”那一端。

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The public is able to digest these "follies" easier than larger buildings, the latter of which may be controversial for their break with tradition on such an imposing scale.

对比起较大型的建筑，公众能够更容易地消化这些“华而不实”的建筑，因为前者可能会因为其在壮观的规模上与传统的矛盾造成争议。

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Both houses recently raised the break point on the sliding commission scale paid by buyers.

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Within each break point, the designer can set different rules and effects for how the elements will scale and transition into the adjacent break point.

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He said president Obama was not talking of a full-scale break-up of the banks but wanted to "separate retail deposit-taking from large-scale proprietary trading, large internal hedge funds and large internal private equity funds and I agree with him".

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