Once he made up his mind to do something, there was no stopping him.

他一旦下定决心做什么事，没有什么可以阻止他。

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At first it was fun, but we ended up playing those games for about 30 hours, stopping only to eat and sleep!

一开始很有趣，但最终我们大概花了30个小时玩这些游戏，只有要吃饭和睡觉时才停下来！

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The father smiled and said, "The role of the string was not stopping the kite from flying higher, but helping it stay in the sky, because the kite itself can't fly up."

父亲笑着说：“线的作用不是阻止风筝飞得更高，而是帮助它留在天空中，因为风筝本身不能飞起来。”

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He was five shots out of the lead, until making a 20-foot birdie on the 15th and coming close to the water on the 18th, stopping short of a bunker for an up-and-down birdie that gave him a 71.

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