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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Because it's such a pity if you start off on a bright tone on a story and suddenly realize you are talking about some people having been killed in a road crash.

因为如果你一开始用欢快的语调讲一个故事，然后突然意识到你讲的是一些在车祸中丧生的人，这是很遗憾的。

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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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On seeing him, Enkidu, the gazelles ran off The wild beasts of the steppe drew away from his body.

见到他，羚羊开始奔逃,草原上的野兽开始远离他。

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It all sort of depends on how you hit it off with somebody, whether there's a spark.

这要看你是不是跟那个人合得来，能不能擦出火花。

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They've been turning them on and off, on and off.

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Users would be able to program lights to automatically turn on and off when people are in the room, to adjust light levels to the amount of daylight coming into a room and to turn on and off or dim at different times via the Internet.

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To fund the factory Wilkin and Sons got permission for 118 homes on its current site off Factory Hill and 126 homes on land off nearby Chapel Road.

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