I'd bet that no one deliberately sits down to read with the purpose of not understanding the text.

我敢打赌，没有人特意坐下来阅读却为了不理解文本。

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Sit down to read and the flywheel of work-related thoughts keeps spinning—or else you're so exhausted that a challenging book's the last thing you need.

当你坐下来阅读的时候，脑海里各种关于工作的思绪就开始翻腾，要不就是你太疲劳了以致于你最不想做的就是读一本充满挑战的书。

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I settled down to have a good read.

我舒舒服服地坐下来，想好好读书。

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Now if you read down, if you sort of skim down, you'll see that kind of language applied to critics.

如果你阅读下去，如果你浏览下去，你会看到批判的语言的运用。

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it's like really, forest sit on that side, so it's really nice to sit down and read a book or something.

那一边简直就像是一片森林，在那里坐下来看看书或干点别的什么将会是件很美妙的事情。

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But look at the end of the passage that I've just read, a few lines down. The doctrine that the Lady wishes to advance suddenly seems so absolutely not to be a doctrine of married chastity.

但是看一下我刚刚读到的文章结尾，下面的几行，女士希望改进的交教义,突然看上去那么绝对，不再是婚姻贞节的教义。

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So my cubicle neighbor, Dikenta Dike and I sat down to read through all the pledge letters sent in by the billionaires and nearly-billionaires that have agreed to do just that.

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Everything about this second iteration of the Kinect is more accurate, in fact, from the number of reference points on your skeleton it monitors down to its ability to read your heartbeat.

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My brain wanted to read in the direction up to down instead of left to right.

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