Our guide explains that the ones with rugged, spiky tops are chunks of glacier that have broken off and floated into the sea without flipping over.

我们的导游解释，冰川崩裂后，厚片没有翻转过来便漂进了海里，这就形成了那些顶上崎岖不平又长又尖的冰块。

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If they fail — and without reform, there is a good chance that they will — taxpayers will be the ones left flipping the bill.

一旦他们失败，而没有采取重组措施的话，他们会有一个好处，那就是纳税人会为他们填单。

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But that will probably change, as prosecutors deploy "flipping" tactics honed during racketeering trials, in which lower level employees receive leniency in return for testifying against their bosses.

不过，这一切或许将有所改变，整个审讯期间，检察官们制定的是敲竹杠策略，一些低级雇员会做出不利老板的证词，以此换取宽大处理。

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And don't be too surprised if that bearded professor flipping pages on an iPad at the table next to you in Starbucks turns out to be an IBM employee.

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It's kind of like flipping through that magazine, and you see specific stories you're interested in, but then you come across a couple of pages that wow you in between and you learn something new.

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The results are always very biased toward flipping, and that says something about the human tendency toward loss aversion.

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