With a start, I realized that perhaps the reason for the 4 a.m. wake-up noise was not ordinary rudeness but carefully executed spite: I had not tipped Raoul in Christmases past.

首先，我意识到让人凌晨4点起床的噪音不是普通的无礼，而是精心制造的恶意：在过去的圣诞节里，我没有给拉乌尔小费。

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But these are not ordinary times.

但现在不是平常时期。

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But these are not ordinary weekday commuters.

但他们并非普通的日常往返者。

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It will not hurt him now. My science and your love have made him different from ordinary men."

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That is not to say that one shouldn't deal with death or sexuality in the ordinary course of life.

这并不是不能在平凡的生活中,涉及死亡或生殖。

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And this is the familiar result from ordinary mechanics, where you're not worrying about something like entropy for a whole collection of particles.

在普通力学中，如果不关注大量粒子的熵，诸如此类的物理量的话,这就是我们通常见到的结果。

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For the moment, however, the big winners from the balanced-budget agreement are not ordinary Americans but tax accountants.

ECONOMIST: A fiscal failure

They are helping their rich friends but not ordinary people.

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It is not ordinary citizens but rich tycoons from Hollywood or Silicon Valley, or special interests such as unions for prison guards, teachers or nurses, that bankroll most initiatives onto the ballots.

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