At the dinner table, my father would go on and on, showing off, aggrandizing himself.

吃饭时我父亲总是不停地夸耀和吹嘘自己。

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Supplies began running low and early this week, five set off on foot across snow fields; on Friday, after four days of trudging, they reached a working military radio center.

供应开始减少，本周早些时候，五个人徒步穿越雪地；周五，经过四天的跋涉，他们到达了一个正在工作的军事无线电中心。

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Think twice before eating those dropped crumbs off your computer keyboard, according to a new study on the amount of germs on keyboards.

一项有关电脑键盘上细菌数量的最新研究称，以后捡起落在键盘上的食物碎屑往嘴里塞之前可得想好了。

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In recent years, a shining city grew in the desert of Dubai on and even off -- the Gulf coast.

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So, as I said, we're finishing up with what we left off with yesterday - or excuse me, on Wednesday.

就像我说过的，我们现在要把昨天,不好意思，是周三没讲完的部分讲完。

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Jacob is a deceiver; Joseph is an arrogant, spoiled brat; Judah reneges on his obligations to his daughter-in-law and goes off and sleeps with a prostitute.

雅各布是个骗子，约瑟夫是个自大，被宠坏的顽童;,犹大背信弃义，抛下自己的儿媳妇,还与妓女有染。

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The European Union currently requires only partner rotation every seven years and a cooling-off period of two years, the U.K. has a five-year-on, five-year-off policy, and Australia has a five-year-on, two-year-off policy.

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Has DB also sold on- and off-exchange CDSs on Greek debt and is it against the restructuring to protect itself from having to pay out on the CDS contracts?

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He almost mistimed Steve Harmison's third ball to mid-on and wafted airily outside off-stump on several occasions, but when he made contact the ball whistled away to the boundary.

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