Exotic pets are the in thing right now.

奇异的宠物眼下很时髦。

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A few years ago jogging was the in thing.

几年前慢跑是流行的事。

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The lengths of the cocktail dresses Evening Dresses vary depending on the prevailing fashion trends and wardrobe that are viewed as the in thing during a particular year;

鸡尾晚礼服的长度由当下时尚趋势及特别的年头流行的小衣柜而决定；

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She had been addressing Christmas cards, and the only thing that came to her mind was 'Merry' as in Merry Christmas."

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Kant calls it "purposiveness"--that is to say, the way in which the thing is organized according to some sort of guiding pattern.

康德称之为，“合目的性“，也就是说，依据某种引导型结构,组织事物的方式。

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which creates a lot of jobs for the people in the community which is a good thing.

这(工程)为社区的人们创造了大量的就业机会，这是一件很好的事情。

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And parents might not even know 'cause they're so caught up in, you know, work and everything, they don't even know that their kid could be going through a lot, not having the in thing.

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And if you look at accounts of Watergate, one continuing theme is that even though Nixon didn't order the break-in, he created the climate in which subordinates thought the break-in was the thing to do, and there is something of a parallel here.

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Greed versus fear, this is the investor mentality, investors either want to be in the next hot thing or they are terrified that they are not going to be in the next hot thing and investing, getting people to invest is a very emotional process.

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