History never travels in a straight line.

历史从来都不是直线发展的。

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When you wave your arms up and down in a straight line，it means"yes"．

当你在一条直线上下挥动手臂时，它的意思是“是的”。

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The horse starts out in a straight line and then it hops off on a diagonal.

马从一条直线出发，然后沿着对角线跳跃。

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And they moved up the hill slowly, in a close group, not in a straight line.

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Any genuinely new trend is a knight's move. I just remind you, in chess the knight doesn't move in a straight line.

所以，任何新趋势都是迂回前进，我只是提醒大家一下，在国际象棋中马是不走直线的。

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So, when the voltage difference between the plates is zero, or when we just don't have the plates there at all, the cathode rays are not bent, they just go right in a straight line, and they can be detected on this screen.

拐弯来测试它们是否带电,当两板之间电压为零，或者根本就,没有这两个板时，阴极射线是一条直线,它可以在屏幕上。

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Health care grew in a straight line up, never missing a year of growth.

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He kicked it many times in a straight line until it was right underneath the branch.

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"You may not get from A to B in a straight line, " he added.

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