The helicopter later took off but soon after taking off it went down and crashed. There were other helicopters flying as well.

直升机随后起飞，但起飞后不久坠毁、爆炸。还有其他直升机在飞行。

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The conductress could see I was running for the bus but she deliberately rang the bell and off it went—a typical case of I'm all right, Jack.

那女售票员可能看到我在追赶公共汽车，可是她故意打铃，让汽车开走了——一个只顾自己，不管别人死活的典型例子。

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When she went off to see her parents for the weekend I thought nothing of it.

她周末去看她的父母时，我没觉得有什么奇怪的。

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"It was scary," "It was a loud firecracker that went off,and there was a fire in the plane."

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He was a hobo by choice: As a little boy, he'd seen a hobo come up to ask his mother for a piece of pie and she had given it to him and when the hobo went off down the road the little boy had said, "Ma, what was that fellow?" "Why, that's a hobo."

他是自愿成为流浪汉的：,当他还是个小男孩的时候，他见过一个流浪汉向他妈妈,要一块派，他妈妈给他了,于是当流浪汉离开的时候小男孩就问，“妈妈，那个家伙是谁“，“是个流浪汉“

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Notice in the class definition here, is there, this is the first thing that's got called, and I just called with the value for x and the value for y, and it went off and did something for me.

就在这里，这是第一个被调用的东西，我用x的值和y的值调用了它,然后这个方法继续进行，并为了做了一些操作。

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This was all set up for yesterday afternoon and off it went.

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Jennings, who did not speak to the media after the game, hit the ball so hard that after it ricocheted off Happ it went all the way into the bullpen in foul territory halfway down the right-field line for a two-run triple.

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He pulled it off and went on receive a master's degree in engineering from Stanford in 1987.

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