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You ought to make a few discreet enquiries before you sign anything.

你应该审慎地询问清楚再签字。

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If birds make their pupils large and small from time to time, this can be a sign that they are excited or scared or angry.

如果鸟类的瞳孔时不时地变大变小，这可能是它们兴奋、害怕或生气的迹象。

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He decided it was a sign that he needed to make his dream of being a building designer a reality.

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The Newscorp's rising stock price was a sign that Rupert Murdoch had some idea how to make money and The Wall Street Journal was not doing as well, so it got gobbled up.

新闻集团,全球最大的媒体集团之一默多克家族控制其30%的股份,是鲁珀特·默多克有能力赚钱的标志,而《华尔街日报》做得不好,所以它被吞并了

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And what this means is we can use --take any arbitrary idea in the world, the idea of a chair or a story or a country, and make a sound or a sign to connect to it.

符号任意性是指,我们可以拿来世间任何想法,比如椅子,故事,或是国家,再发明一种声音或符号来与之相联系

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To help AmeriCares with its disaster response, visit the website to make a donation or sign up to be a volunteer.

CNN: Isaac pounds the Gulf Coast: How to help

But when Suharto announced a budget in January that flouted earlier pledges to the IMF, telephone calls from his ASEAN colleagues as well as U.S. President Bill Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Hashimoto Ryutaro are thought to have played a decisive role in persuading him to sign a revised agreement to make tough reforms.

CNN: Indonesia's Agony

And N'Zogbia, who plays primarily on the left, insists he is keen to stay in England - even if clubs from France's Ligue 1 were to make a bid to sign him.

BBC: N'Zogbia ready to leave Newcastle