For the start, I only planted some tomatoes and cucumbers.

一开始，我只种了一些西红柿和黄瓜。

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Don't start! I told you I'd be late.

别抱怨啦！我跟你说过我要迟到的。

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With a start, I realized that perhaps the reason for the 4 a.m. wake-up noise was not ordinary rudeness but carefully executed spite: I had not tipped Raoul in Christmases past.

首先，我意识到让人凌晨4点起床的噪音不是普通的无礼，而是精心制造的恶意：在过去的圣诞节里，我没有给拉乌尔小费。

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Fabricio Cimino wrote: Not long ago I wanted to watch TV, but it wouldn't turn on, so I did everything I could to start it.

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So now, now that we've got all three of the major laws of thermodynamics, what I want to start in on is a discussion of what happens spontaneously.

现在既然我们已经得到了,热力学的三个主要定理，我想现在开始讨论的是,什么过程会自发进行。

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I guess you just try. I don't know. Like at the start, I was like a bit judgmental about, like, the American culture

我觉得你只要尽力就好。我不知道。就像一开始，我也对美国文化有些品头论足的倾向，

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