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When the water level was high, the user needed only to descend a few steps to reach it; when it was low, several levels would have to be negotiated.

当水位高的时候，使用者只需要往下走几个台阶就能到达井的部位；当水位低的时候，就要走好几层了。

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The ball bounced twice before he could reach it.

球弹了两次他才接到。

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They walked toward the bridge. Before they could reach it, bullets began whizzing past them.

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It's a dramatic way-station in a story that's going to reach its climax in the covenant that will be concluded at Sinai, and as many sensitive readers of the Bible have noted, the road from Egypt leads not to the other side of the Reed Sea, but on to Sinai.

这只是故事的一小部分,高潮产生在西奈制定的契约,就像有些敏感的读者已经注意到,离开埃及的路并没有指向Reed海的另一端，而是向西奈。

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google Imagine you want to search through Google to find a particular page. You want to do it in a second. And you're going to just do it the brute force way, assuming you could even reach all of those pages in that time.

假设你想通过,搜索一个特定的网页,你想在1秒内得到结果,然后你就只管去做了,认为能在1秒内遍历遍所有的网页。

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We'll need to see, we need to cross the bridge when we reach it.

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And, people loved working for her as she set the bar high and then helped them reach it.

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When it was Ware's turn, officials lowered the hoop so he could reach it without climbing a ladder.

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