Put your collar down, make any final adjustments, and let your friends call you duke.

把领子放下，做最后的调整，让你的朋友称呼你为公爵吧。

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Others will pull you down to their level and make you lose.

别人会把你拉低到和他们一样的水平，并且让你输。

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You can water down a glass of wine and make it last twice as long.

你可以在一杯葡萄酒中掺水，这样就能当两杯喝。

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I need to make it so you can still see that, so I'm going to pull down these boards.

我需要把这块黑板拉下来,以便你们还能够看到

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And I think you will wish you are continuing to make the investment in time. If you are down here, what I want you to do is talk to somebody.

我想你希望再接再厉,保持花在这么门课上的时间，如果你退步了，我要你做的就是和某人交谈。

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You could literally be strapped down and be immobile and these connections are what you appreciate and you make connections in your mind.

你可能真的是被捆绑着，动弹不得,你喜欢这些联系,然后在你的脑海里建立起这些联系。

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Working closely with the teachers' unions, make sure that you dumb down standards so that children who make the most minimal effort still get by with flying colors.

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Having a nicely waxed board will make you simply fly down the slopes, and this is a very cheap alternative to taking it in to a shop to be done.

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If you go down that path, make sure you are thinking about some of the implications.

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