Countless choices define our fate, each choice, each moment, a ripple in a river of time.

无数的选择决定了我们的命运。每一次选择，每一个时刻，都是时间河流中的一个涟漪。

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That morning the river was lovely, there was not a ripple on it.

那天早上河水很美，没有一丝波澜。

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She sat by the river side and saw the ripples and circles made by water. She wove the ripple pattern on cloth.

她就坐在河边，看着水面上泛起的涟漪和一圈圈水波，于是就在布上织出了水波纹的图案。

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They eyeballed each ripple in the river, and then, without warning, violently pounced upon some unwitting sockeye for a morning snack.

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Scan the sidewalk menus for some chilli crab or the local staple ayam buah keluak (chicken cooked with a dark, oily local nut), or just sip a glass of wine and watch chugging "bumboats" ripple the reflections on the river.

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