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This "ball" was the only thing Moise could callhis own - no family, no home, no place to go.

这个“球”是莫伊兹的唯一——他没有亲人，也无家可归，更无处可去。

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The one thing you didn't want to do was drop the ball.

在他“玩”这个游戏的时候，最重要的是你千万不要把球丢掉。

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If you've ever been using some program, you did something completely innocuous, pull something down from a menu, click a button, you didn't do anything wrong and yet all of a sudden the thing just starts hanging there or you get a little spinning beach ball or the hour glass or whatever it is.

如果你之前在用一些程序，做一些无伤大雅的事情，拉下一个菜单，点击一个按钮，你没有做任何错误的事情,突然间有东西开始一直运行,或者一个沙滩上的小球旋转,或滴漏或是别的什么。

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But the breaking ball is usually the last thing to come around for me.

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Of course, whacking the little black rubber ball repeatedly isn't the same thing as knowing how to play the game.

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