The most difficult thing in a fast game of basketball is to change course midstream.

在一场快节奏的篮球比赛中，最难之事莫过于中途变线了。

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A few years ago jogging was the in thing.

几年前慢跑是流行的事。

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The war was the biggest thing in her life and nothing after that quite fulfilled her.

那场战争是她一生中最重大的事，在那之后没有什么颇使她感到满足过。

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And they like to look at the pictures of unusual creatures such as the Cat in the Hat, Thing One,Thing Two, Little Cindy-Lou Who,and Sam-I-Am.

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Kant calls it "purposiveness"--that is to say, the way in which the thing is organized according to some sort of guiding pattern.

康德称之为，“合目的性“，也就是说，依据某种引导型结构,组织事物的方式。

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We already moved way forward and completely revolutionizing the understanding of an atom in that there's something in an atom - it's not the smallest thing there is.

我们已经超前走了一步,完全改变我们对原子的看法：,原子里面还有东西，它并不是最小的,但你也知道。

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And if you look at accounts of Watergate, one continuing theme is that even though Nixon didn't order the break-in, he created the climate in which subordinates thought the break-in was the thing to do, and there is something of a parallel here.

NPR: With White House Bogged Down By Scandal, GOP Looks For Boost

Such is the essence of the world, the nameless thing-in-itself, a melange of a priori truths that reside dormant within each man from the moment he is born.

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But in order to do that they need the recommendations of Commonwealth observers who've been monitoring the elections in Zimbabwe - and the key thing they want to know is whether the elections were free and fair.

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