You cannot live your children's lives for them; you can only be there to pick up the pieces when things go wrong.

你不能替孩子过活，只能在出现问题时帮忙解决。

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She reached down to pick them up, and quickly realized there were many more tiny pieces than she could deal with.

她伸手把它们捡起来，很快就意识到有很多小碎片她无法处理。

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She was also there to help me pick up the pieces, if I ever needed help.

如果我需要帮助，她也会帮我收拾残局。

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Pieces of gypsum broke off. The wind wore them away to a size small enough to pick up and carry for short distances.

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It's a huge warehouse full of amazing pieces which they pick up from all around the world.

它是个很大的仓库，装满了神奇的东西，它们是从世界各地收集而来的。

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You want to keep spinning your mandrel so that it doesn't melt off the rod and you're going to heat your bead so that it's tacky enough to roll onto the frit and pick up pieces of the glass."

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Five years later, my brother helped me pick the pieces back up and launch Camp Bow Wow.

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