It happened—whether by accident or design —that the two of them were left alone after all the others had gone.

碰巧—不知是偶然还是有意安排—其他人走后，只剩下了他们两个人。

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The pilot, whether by accident or design, made the plane do a sharp turn.

飞行员不知是有意或无意，让飞机来了个急转弯。

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The mark may be a word, picture or design.

商标可以是一个词，画或者设计。

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The dictionary says that the word "mosaic" means a picture or design that is made by placing small colored pieces together.

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This is just a little inelegant and so one of the things we'll introduce early on is this idea of abstraction or design whereby if you wanna represent the ideas of 0 and 1, true or false, well, let's give them a synonym like true or false.

这么说有点粗野,我要接着讲的是这种抽象的思想,或者用这个来描绘设计出,真和假的思想，我们可以给真假各指定一个同义词。

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And there's also I think a museum there, MAD or Museum of Art and Design and it's fairly new as well

我想那里也有博物馆，叫ＭＡＤ或者艺术设计博物馆，也是相当新的。

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For power users--say graphic designers or design engineers--the productivity gains could be even greater.

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So, by accident or design, Mr Rugova is back on top, but what can he now do?

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Whether by accident or design, you took your revenge on the brother who had not stabbed you.

BBC: Thomas and Daley