When it's time to make the leap, they take action and immediately drop what's no longer serving their purpose.

当需要向前迈进的时候，他们会采取行动，并立即放弃那些有助于实现目标的事物。

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In particular, lobster larvae take less time to reach the size at which they are no longer vulnerable to predation by young cod, the chief threat to their survival.

特别是，龙虾幼虫需要更短的时间才能长到不再容易受到幼鳕鱼捕食的大小，幼鳕鱼是它们生存的主要威胁。

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For me, it means that I no longer have to take all the decisions for him.

对我而言，这意味着我不再需要为他作一切决定了。

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Confederate leaders no longer could find soldiers to take the places of those who left.

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And that right now we can no longer afford to incarcerate, see, more than two million people, and take them not only out of workforce, but keeping them away from information of knowledge of literacy.

现在，我们已没有能力,去限制两亿人口，让他们，脱离劳动力，让他们脱离信息,知识或文化素养。

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I don't actually know exactly what it would take, but you just cut off and snip the relevant nerve endings so that we're no longer able to engage in that higher order thinking.

我不知道手术到底怎样做，但只要切除相关的神经末梢,让我们无法进行,更高层次的思维。

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But the uproar should serve as a warning to companies that women no longer take kindly to being portrayed as less serious or knowledgeable than men.

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Suffice it to say, I no longer had to take on unpaid work.

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Change has become so ubiquitous and so relentless that we no longer take the time to think about what it means.

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