What's the point in producing an engine that is big and powerful enough to go like 200 kilometers an hour when the speed limit is only 100?

如果车速限制是100千米每小时，生产一个足够大、足够强、时速能达到每小时200公里的引擎有什么意义呢？

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I'll go to $1 000 but that's my limit.

我愿意出1 000元，这可是最大限度了。

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If she can't curb this trait and you don't want the friendship to end, limit how long you let her go on about herself; then give yourself equal air time.

如果她不能抑制这种性格，而你不也想终结这种友谊，就限制她谈论自己的时间；然后，给自己同样长的时间发表意见。

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When you start describing the significance of a symbol like the tunnel, which recurs in the book, you immediately begin to limit it, and a symbol should go on deepening.

当你开始描述一个象征的意义,比如说在书中，反复出现的隧道，当你一开始予以限制，这个象征就会继续深化。

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And, this will go on and on and on without limit.

这会无止尽地进行下去。

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Be a man, be proud of what you should be proud of, but don't go beyond limit of what is human, because if you do terrible things will come.

作为一个凡人,你可以为值得自豪的事自豪,但是不能超越凡人的界限,因为一旦越界,就会灾难临头

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