For my son's 1st birthday I baked three different cakes from scratch, following recipes I had carefully researched to delight his baby friends and their parents alike.

在我儿子第一个生日时，我整整烤了3个不一样的蛋糕，我小心翼翼地跟着食谱操作，希望能够让宝宝的朋友们和他们的父母喜欢。

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The couple told the housing officials that the three-bedroom flat simply was not up to scratch for their needs.

这对夫妇告诉管理住房的官员们这套三居室的套房根本没有达到他们的要求。

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If you can't scratch up the cash for a proper date, odds are you live in a Bohemian Garrett with three or four roommates.

如果你凑不齐足够的钱进行一场像样的约会，胜算的概率则是你和三四个室友住在波西米亚的加特勒。

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He argues that, for a utility starting from scratch, reprocessing would be two to three times as expensive as simply storing the waste.

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"The biggest challenge was that we had to create such an elaborate large-scale world all from scratch, " says Nelson Lowry, who worked on the film at Three Mills Studios for more than two years as its production designer.

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