Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

生活就象洋葱：你一层一层拨开就会发现里面什么也没有。

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When the peel agent formed by the deposition of that layer of film or when it completely clean, together with the sebum will peel off.

当剥下敷而剂所形成的那层薄膜或将之完全冲洗干净时，皮脂会随着一起剥落。

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Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

生活就是一个洋葱，你一层一层剥开它，还时不时要流泪。

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In one of such sessions, together with his doctoral student Konstantin Novoselov, he used a piece of ordinary sticky tape (which allegedly they found in a bin) to peel off a very thin layer of graphite, taken from a pencil.

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