I cannot conceive of anybody writing a play by sitting down and mapping it out.

我无法想像有人能坐下来凭空想就写出剧本。

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As it turned out I really enjoyed the field work, it was a nice supplement to just sitting and listening to lectures.

事实证明，我真的很喜欢实地工作，这对于只能坐着听讲座来说是一个很好的补充。

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Add up all the hours together and it turns out that I spent most of it sitting down, watching other fictitious people live their lives.

我就是花个把个小时坐在那儿，看一群虚构出来的人们过着他们的日子。

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He was sitting at his desk so it was very hard to get him out with all the rubble and wood around him,"

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typically, if you play poker in a card room or a casino, I would say nine times out of ten somebody sitting at the table will tell you that they're not trying; it almost always happens.

通常，如果你在棋牌室或者赌场玩扑克，十有八九，我敢说坐在牌桌上的某个人,会告诉你他们并没有在努力去赢；,这几乎总会发生。

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It ran through that sequence of instructions, in particular it bound x to the value three, x and then it took x times x, got the value of x multipied by x, which of course is nine, bound that to the value of x, and then it printed out the value, and now it's sitting here waiting for an input.

程序按照指令的顺序去执行的，首先是把x和3这个值进行了绑定，然后把x乘以，得到了x乘以x的值，当然也就是9了，然后把x和这个值进行了绑定，然后显示出这个值，然后就等待输入。

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The nine or ten others were roughly split between voting McCain or sitting it out.

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The big snag is that sitting it out would mean letting Mr Mugabe stay in power.

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"All the corporates are still sitting it out and aren't being dragged into the water screaming and kicking as they are elsewhere in Asia, " says Rountree.

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