Parents spend the first part of a child's life getting him to walk and talk, and the rest of his childhood getting him to sit down and shut up.

父母在孩子生命的最初阶段教他走路和说话，而在剩余的童年时期教他坐下和闭嘴。

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Now if you don't mind, I am somewhat preoccupied telling the laws of physics to shut up and sit down.

现在若你不介意的话，我要多少集中些精神来念出这物理法则然后闭嘴坐下。

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Children: you spend the first 2 years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next 16 years telling them to sit down and shut-up.

孩子是这样一种存在：你用一开始两年教会他们开口和走路，然后用接下来16年说服他们闭嘴和坐停下来。

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"What we are doing,folks, we are rolling up our sleeves and we are getting down to business and getting back to the common sense conservative principles that made this country the greatest country on earth, and we are not going to sit down and shut up."

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In other examples one patient was told to "sit down and shut up" and another warned they would not be cared for if they did not eat their meal.

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Dollhouse, helmed by Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Joss Wheedon, will be joined by two more animated series (another signature of the young-skewing network): Family Guy-spinoff Cleveland and Mitch Hurwitz's Sit Down and Shut Up.

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