Some observers think Microsoft may have been motivated by its desire to keep Skype's know-how out of the hands of rivals such as Cisco and Google.

一些观察者认为微软此举的动机来源于不想让思科、谷歌等竞争对手得知Skype的专业技术。

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Please put me out of my misery. How do you do it?

请别让我着急了。你是怎么做的呀？

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Just out of interest , how much did it cost?

我只是好奇问问，这个花了你多少钱？

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He told reporters how the color of his skin kept him out of tennis games as a boy in Richmond.

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pastor The word pastoral comes from the Latin pastor, which literally means "shepherd," and Milton knew perfectly well how artificial his use of the pastoral mode of poetry would seem as well as how out of fashion, how completely outdated, it would seem.

这个词来源于拉丁语中的，字面上表示“牧羊人“,弥尔顿非常清楚他对这种田园诗的运用,看起来有多么的不自然，过时，多么的落伍。

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Now Isaac Newton and/or Joseph Raphson figured out how to do this kind of thing for all differentiable functions.

既然牛顿和拉复生已经,指数了如何解这种可导函数,因此我们就不用太担心了。

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And that's an indication of just how out of control the subprime market had become.

NPR: New Century's Borrowers Worry for Homes

Mr Miliband said the prime minister's "boasts about rising employment" show "how out of touch he is".

BBC: PM defends 'unwelcome' unemployment figures

Sometimes I wonder just how out of touch folks in university circles can be with the real world.

FORBES: U Are Out of Touch