Once you have tasted life in southern California, it takes a peculiar kind of masochism to return to a British winter.

一旦尝试过南加利福尼亚州的生活，只有某种怪异的自虐狂才会想要返回寒冷的英国。

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It can mean being kind and helpful, or even trying to please your superior, and then expecting something in return.

它可以意味着善良和乐于助人，甚至试图取悦你的上级，然后期待取得某些回报。

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In this case, the return type is seq [String], where seq (" sequence ") is a particular kind of collection.

在这个例子里，返回类型是seq [string]，seq (sequence)是一种特殊的集合。

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She says people might have difficulty completing an activity if they cannot expect some kind of reward in return.

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So you're implementing this black box, and if its purpose in life is to actually return a value, you have to tell the compiler what kind of value to expect, and this is going to have ripple effects.

你在实现这个黑盒子，如果它的目的是,返回一个值，你必须告诉编译器你期望的是什么类型的值，这个将是一个连锁反应。

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And in keeping with that idea of a kind of a return to chaos, Noah is represented in a way as the beginning of a new creation.

这种观点相当于又回到混沌时代，诺亚在某种程度来说，标志着一个新的创世纪的开始。

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For the authors, their trade deficits with Cambridge restaurants, airlines taking them to junkets around the world, and Newbury Street clothiers are their certain rewards for trade surpluses run with their employers at HBS, the publisher of their book, and the businesses that pay them consulting fees in return for the kind of advice that would bankrupt most any business if actually followed.

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All I ask in return is an acknowledgment that the kind of politics I favor and argue for in this book is also well within the bounds of the Anglo-American conservative tradition.

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There is still uncertainty about when mature car markets will return to the kind of sales seen in the decade up to 2007 (according to IHS Global Insight it will not be for at least four years) and who will be the winners and losers among the big carmakers.

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