I favor the former, if only because I want to sleep at night.

如果我仅仅因为我想晚上能睡个好觉，那么我会支持前者。

youdao

She always writes me once a month, if only to scold me because I haven't answered her last letter yet.

她总是一个月写一封信给我，即使仅仅是为了责备我还没有回她的上一封信。

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I guess there are scientists right now trying to do that, and I hope they'll succeed because the world would be a much cleaner place, wouldn't it? I think it will be great if they invent something so that we only have to sleep for one or two hours every day.

我想有科学家正在尝试这样做，我希望他们能成功，这样世界会变得更干净，不是吗？如果他们发明一种东西，让我们每天只睡一两个小时，那就太好了。

youdao

Because, as I said, you can only drive one car at a time and if you've got ten of them in the garage, then it doesn't really do you much good.

正如我说的,你只能一次开一辆车,但如果你的车库里有十辆,它实际上并不会给你带来更多的好处

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I mean, isn't it somewhat inefficient to load it really deep, because I assume if a spear is only six feet long, what are people in the back going to be doing?

我觉得,过于厚实的方阵会影响效率,据我所知,长矛也就六尺来长,那站在方阵后方的战士都在干什么呢

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You cannot answer that, even if I promised to move only along the x-axis, because I think...I don't want to pose this as a question, because I think the answer is fairly obvious to everybody.

即使我保证只在 x 轴上移动,你们仍然无法回答,因为我觉得...我不想将其作为一个问题,因为我认为答案是显而易见的

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On the topic of PowerPoint slides, Kawasaki has a technique that I think is very effective if only because I see it used so rarely and yet it is very personal and makes an immediate connection with an audience.

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If so it's only because I haven't forgotten how good the first "Die Hard" was (and still is).

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If I were to return, I would ask for the least expensive second-floor room, only because I could hear the footsteps above mine.

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