"The nightmares for a tightwad are sushi by the piece or a taxi where you have to watch the meter running," Loewenstein says.

Loewenstein说：“对于一个吝啬鬼而言，噩梦可能就是看到寿司涨价或者打车的时候看到计价器在飞涨”。

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The steel mill was dismantled piece by piece.

钢厂已经一块块拆散了。

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The bridge was taken down piece by piece.

桥梁被一部分一部分地拆毁。

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His idea for the original drawing came from a piece of music by the English composer Ralph Vaughn-Williams.

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I was strucked by what I found in the New York Times December 8th, a piece writen by an army officer.

我感到非常震惊,12月8号，我在纽约时报，看到了一篇军官写的文章。

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Well I ought to be able to do that by simply generalizing the loop. And that's what the next piece of code on your a hand out shows you.

好的通过生成这个循环,我应该能够达到目的,这也是你们的讲义中下一段代码。

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That was the main reason they kept their jobs, which paid by the piece, and not very much.

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Because a loan is secured by the piece in hock, risk is finite.

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Pay is still by the piece, but the industry's informal character is gone.

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