It might be something like that, a tiny something that one would set down like a couple of elements.

这类似于很小的事情，有人会把它们像一系列元素一样列出来。

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Two pies sang one after another liquidly, like a couple of human being.

两只喜鹊清脆地叫着，一唱一合，宛如一对情侣在对歌。

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"You can look at it like a couple of very large uranium mines," he said of the fissile material that would result from the program.

“你可以把它看成好几座大型铀矿(的裂变原料在支持这个方案)。”他说。

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And I had a few companies then. But then a couple years ago, with the turn,now my business is like eighty percent corporate, twenty percent in-home private.

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So it might be something like that, a tiny little something that one would set down like a couple of elements.

所以创作的支点可能是类似这些的，很小很小的事情，作者会把它们列出来,就像一系列元素一样。

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He was on The Bachelor before like a couple of years ago.

两年前，他在这个节目上出现过。

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He and Zalkin got on famously--like a couple of scorpions in a bottle.

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Until now, Democrats and Republicans have been like a couple that has been living in the same house since 1986.

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Arktos and Walker run to their new toys and handle them like a couple of competitors in the World's Strongest Man contest.

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