They swallowed it whole. Their teeth were used to rip the meat or plants into mouth-sized pieces, but were not used for chewing.

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And people, they would rip off your shirt to see if you had a bruise from a recoiling rifle.

人们会扯掉你的衬衣,看你胸口是否有步枪后作力造成的瘀伤

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So, there had to be more to it than just identifying the high-risk asset class and putting your assets there and letting it rip.

因此,投资远不仅仅是,识别高风险资产,投资其中,然后就放任自流

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"I think someone needs to rip LaGuardia to shreds, " she said.

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Speaking at a LexisNexis conference on DRM, Glickman announced that the major studios comprising the MPAA have made a "philosophical commitment" to interoperability and fair use and announced a plan to let people rip DVDs to home servers and iPods.

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The rest came from a long series of experiments that created the ecosystem effects it desired. iTunes originally allowed consumers to play CDs and rip them to mp3s to be played on their iMac.

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