Someone called Bob and he excused himself and left to serve a customer. After a while he returned and continued with his story.

有人叫鲍勃，他说了声“抱歉”，便去招待别的客人。过了一会儿，他回来继续说他的故事。

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To fill in gaps left by conventional seismic instruments, some researchers have proposed exploiting sensors inside laptop computers to allow them to serve as distributed P-wave sensors.

为了填补常规地震仪留下的空白，一些研究人员建议开发膝上型计算机里面的传感器，把它们用作分布式P-波传感器。

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Funerals should not only serve to memorialize the dead, but also to give hope to those they've left behind.

葬礼不该仅仅是为了追念逝者，还要给予生者希望。

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Allegations left uninvestigated with regard to crimes of this nature, violations of human rights, will only serve to feed resentment, bitterness,anger,frustration."

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Plato himself, remember, made a number of trips to Sicily to serve as the advisor to a king there, Dionysius, and all of these missions failed and left him deeply dispirited.

记不记得柏拉图自己，曾多次旅行到西西里岛,从事国王顾问的工，Dionysius王，他所有的使命都未竟成功,并使他深深感到气馁。

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However,like millions of others, Hooks left his studies to serve in the armed forces during World War II.

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He returned to Bain Capital but left to serve as C.

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We'll use up our entire treasury surplus investigating these yahoos, and only Kenneth Starr will be left to serve the nation after all the impeachin' is done.

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He has eights years of his sentence left to serve.

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