The very thing that our journey together, in business as a family, has prepared them to do—and the one thing that they were born to do—soar!

正是我们在一起的旅程，作为一个家庭的生意，让他们做好了准备去做一件事——也是他们生来要做的一件事——翱翔!

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A man can't be so greedy, maybe thing will go to an opposite side if we want to finish a thing in one time.

一个人不能这么贪心，如果我们想一次完成一件事情，事态可能会背道而驰。

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Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

美在她看来，正如许多深有感触的人一样，并不在美的事物本身，而是在它的象征。

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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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A narrative theory is always talking with some satisfaction about how there's no such thing in fiction as irrelevant detail.

一个叙述性的理论通常都在讲述,小说中没有细节是完全和主题无关的这一满足感。

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So I think that gay marriage and for gay families, it's actually a very good thing in our society

所以我认为同性恋婚姻以及同性恋家庭对社会是件好事情，

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And I think the fact that we have a broad international coalition and we have other countries through NATO taking a lead is a good thing and a positive thing in terms of our shared responsibility for dealing with issues like this around the world.

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Sperling, a man religiously opposed to having a social life, continues to log six 18-hour days a week, even though he has now acquired three assistants, who are already pasty-faced with fatigue and have gained the nicknames Thing One, Thing Two and Thing Three after characters in The Cat in the Hat.

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Make a pact that as soon as you do that one thing you will commit to doing another thing in that stack.

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