When the going gets tough, when the gossip gets mean, you always have one reliable escape line: “Don’t we have some work to do here?

当情况变得不妙，闲话变得刻薄时，你总是有一个脱身妙计：“我们现在难道没有工作可做了吗？”

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So you have what are called escape characters like backslash N that is the shorthand notation of telling the computer put a new line character here.

幸亏我们有一些类似反斜杠n的转义字符,这只是一种简化方式,用来告知电脑要在这新添一行。

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The Accies defence then somehow managed to escape going a goal down after Paddy McCourt cut the ball back across the Hamilton goal-line after a mazy run, but Mark McLaughlin blocked the shot from Forrest.

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