Lifts stopped working, so that even if you were lucky enough not to be trapped between two floors, you had the unpleasant task of finding your way down hundreds of flights of stairs.

电梯停止了工作，所以即使你足够幸运没有被困在两层楼之间，你也要经历一项艰难的任务，要找到通往下几百层楼的路。

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If you like working alone, a job that requires lots of teamwork might not suit you.

如果你喜欢一个人工作，那么需要很多团队合作的工作可能不适合你。

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If you've always been a certain way or done a certain thing, but it's not working for you any more, or you're not content, Emerson says that it'd be foolish to be consistent even with our own past.

如果你总是以某种方式或做某种事情，但它不再适合你，或者你不满足，爱默生说，即使是与我们自己的过去保持一致也是愚蠢的。

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Some analysts are warning of dire consequences for both Israelis and Palestinians if Mr.Netanyahu's government does not relent and start working toward a two-state solution.

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Important lesson, so that there would be some predictability in the results and I would have some, if you will, smoke test for knowing whether or not I was getting, my code seemed to be working.

这很重要，因为这样我就可以预测,结果会是多少了，如果你愿意，我们可以做烟气试验,来看我的代码是否工作正常。

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If I'm now working in one dimension, it's obvious because I'm not using any vectors.

假设我现在只考虑一维的情形,这很明显,因为我没有用矢量

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He does now say that around September, early September, he's going to offer the president and Congress what he calls a candid assessment of the way forward - in other words, what to do based on - what to do essentially from that point forward, if in fact the security plan is working, if it's not working and so on.

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If something is not working, we go out there and fix it.

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Much of my work involves helping people become more effective at work, and if they are not working, more productive in their job searches.

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