A lot of people think of earth's orbit around the sun as being perfectly circular, as smooth and as regular as, say, the way that hands move on a well-made watch, but it just doesn't work that way.

很多人认为地球绕太阳的轨道是完美的圆形，就像手在一块制作精良的手表上移动那样平滑、有规则，但事实并非如此。

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It's a lot more secure than a regular job.

它要比正常的工作都要安全。

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If you discover or invent some slightly new variant of the language, it is a lot easier to play with the EBNF grammar than with those regular expressions.

如果您发现或发明了该语言的某种经过微小更新的变体，将它和ebnf语法一起使用要比和那些正则表达式一起使用简单得多。

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"But there are a lot of regular start-ups all over New York, " he said.

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The fact is that Nixon was often very popular with a lot of regular Americans.

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But they also have a lot of regular patients.

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