You may also have to delay a purchase you had been looking forward to making, or bow out of an event.

你可能还得延迟购买你一直想要的某个东西，或者退出某项事务。

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It was God, not the sword or the bow, that drove out the enemy.

是上帝将敌人驱逐而不是刀和弓。

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You can switch out weapons by pausing the game, so you might start a battle off with a bow and a sword, and then switch out the bow for some other closer or middle-ranged weapon.

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Go it alone instead, and never be too proud to bow gracefully out of a bargaining session or backtrack the way you came.

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But after a few minutes - probably about five - I could see that the end - I couldn't tell whether it was the bow or the stern - of the boat was sticking vertically out of the water.

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