In the development of Western technology, it has been non-verbal thinking, by and large, that has fixed the outlines and filled in the details of our material surroundings.

在西方科技的发展中，非语言思维大体上固定了我们物质环境的轮廓，并填充了细节。

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Even Mark Twain, a man who enjoyed a hearty laugh, said that when it came to photographic portraits there could be "nothing more damning than a silly, foolish smile fixed forever".

就连乐于开怀大笑的马克吐温也说，当谈到人像照片时，“没有什么比一个又傻又蠢的微笑被永远定格更可怕的了”。

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The biggest disadvantage is usually that because the well has fixed dimensions, it is impossible to install a larger outboard.

他最大的缺点是由于这口井的尺寸固定，因此不可能换装更大的舷外发动机。

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It bothered her and she had it fixed, and her self-esteem went up 200 percent once that was fixed."

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It refers to usually 'receptors' that are fixed in a cell, on a cell membrane, and 'ligands' which are dispersed throughout the body and free to diffuse around, and occasionally will find the cell.

受体这个词通常代表了,固定于细胞表面的分子,而配体分散于体内各处,能够自由扩散,它们偶尔会与细胞邂逅

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So this line or these lines of code up here are arguably constant time steps to say if N is less than 2 in return, that it will always take maybe one step, maybe two steps, some number of fixed CPU cycles.

如果N小于2并返回,那么这些行所对应的代码,通常只需要执行一步，或者两步，具体数字与CPU周期有关。

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What happened on that particular provision was that after I had sponsored it and helped to get it passed, it turned out that there was a legal provision in it that was problematic and needed to be fixed so that it wouldn't be struck down.

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It pointed out a process deficiency that we fixed and it will never happen again.

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Claiming that a problem is fixed, that it is a thing of the past, when all the evidence shows that it is plainly ongoing?

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