"It doesn't hold up to serious mathematics because Thailand sees about 1.4 million medical travelers from outside of Thailand.

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You might hold up the photograph and I might say, "Gosh, that really doesn't look very much like Ruth does it?"

你拿起照片,我可能会说,这一点都不像露丝

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Well again, I can say the words, but when I try to imagine that possibility and take it seriously, at least speaking personally, it doesn't--it doesn't hold up.

我能说出这种假设，但当我想象那种可能性,并严肃考究时，起码就我而言，它也站不住脚。

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"They usually don't hold up too well, or too long, " says Bert Ely, a banking analyst.

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If you take the tube and are late they won't hold up the race.

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This occasionally worked, but mostly it produced a flood of dubious genetic findings that didn't hold up.

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