to give something forty licks 使某物变的更好更漂亮
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Among the main characters in Beijing Beerism, Gozi is a forty something novelist with fame but no market share.
《天下就有不散的筵席》中几个主要人物,狗子是有名但并不主流的小说家。
President Faust, you must have learned something since you graduated from college exactly 40 years ago? "Forty years."
福校长,你大学毕业到现在的40年里一定学到些什么东西可以教给我们吧?
Look for a job that you find fun and fulfilling - instead of spending forty hours a week doing something that you dislike.
找一份你自己感兴趣并且令人满意的工作,取代一份一周花了你四十个小时但是你却不喜欢的工作。
"It includes three hundred million dollars to buy new cars for the government, eight billion dollars for high-speed rail projects, such as a 'magnetic levitation' line from Las Vegas to Disneyland, and one hundred forty million dollars for something called 'volcano monitoring.'
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If the average age of death was something like forty-five, maybe a fifty-fifty chance of--high risk-- of one of the parents dying.
那么这个概率其实很低,不是吗,大概有高达50%的可能性,双亲中的一人会死去
Back in the 1840s, life insurance was very important because the average expectancy of life was only something like forty-five years, so that meant parents were dying left and right.
在19世纪40年代的时候,寿险是非常重要的,因为当时的人均期望寿命,仅为45岁左右,这意味着双亲平均只能活到45岁
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