Round here, you leave school at sixteen and next thing you know , you're married with three kids.

这一带的人十六岁中学毕业，接着就结婚，生三个孩子。

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Next thing you know, he just opened fire.

接下来的事你也清楚，他开火了。

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Next thing you know, disposable plastic bottles are the bad guys.

结果，一次性塑料瓶是有害的。

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In comes the prehensile thumb, and the next thing you know you get a colossal earthquake, and the possessor of the prehensile thumb disappears from the earth -which is to say, very possibly the human species will never develop.

就像对人类进化至关重要的大拇指，经历了一场大地震后，如果所有有这种拇指的人都消失了,那么人类就很可能永远不能进化。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I know you want to get on with life, and you're onto the next thing, and you are tuning out, but you hear all the click, click, click, click, click?

我知道你希望在生活上出人头地，由于弄另一件事上了，后来你又不理会了，你能全部听到嘀嘀的声音？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

What's now the most efficient use of people's time, like how can people maybe be working on stuff not serially but I didn't say someone's working on launching a high school product on the photos and someone else is working on the thing every launch next to each, you know.

才能达到最高的工作效率，也许可以摒弃,连续工作的模式,我并不是说,他们是在开发一个小儿科的产品,有人负责建立相册,有人负责,下周要开启的项目。

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Then the next thing you know, I went 0-for-4, struck out a couple times.

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You create one version of the software and the next thing you know, it's pirated all over the place.

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The next thing you know, a Big 4 firm offers you a job.

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