We started from the bottom and we had to work our way up to the top.

我们从最底层做起，必须奋斗到最高层。

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We cleaned the house from top to bottom.

我们把房子彻底打扫了一遍。

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She would clean the house from top to bottom.

她会彻底地打扫房子。

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There was a new effort to build wealth from the bottom up, rather than from the top down.

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In just a moment the hearts are gonna start flowing from bottom to top and the cookies are gonna start moving left and right and they seem to be somewhat synchronized with the music, perhaps based on trial and error by the student who implemented this one.

刚刚那一刻，那些爱心们从底部上浮到顶部,饼干人则向左向右移动,它们似乎都随着音乐的律动而变化着，也许这是那个制作该动画的同学,不断尝试的结果。

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So in your mind, if you are now the computer program and you are executing this thing from top to bottom, what just has happened verbally is we are stepping into the line of code that says sort left half of elements.

在你们看来，如果你现在是计算机程序,正在从上到下执行一系列指令，刚才所发生的就是我们现在已执行到了这行代码,它告诉你要对左半部分的元素排序。

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Five percent of those households had moved all the way to the top, while a similar number fell from the top to the bottom.

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In other words, a five-storey pagoda contains not even one pillar that travels right up through the building to carry the structural loads from the top to the bottom.

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Moreover, a liberal such as this reformed ex-rationalist might also argue, albeit while in the throes of sleep deprivation and having suffered from multiple starvation-induced hallucinations, that gift-giving is a social good because it tends to redistribute income from the top to the bottom.

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