It's time I got down to thinking about that essay.

我该认真思考一下那篇论文了。

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We are thinking of scaling down our training programmes next year.

我们考虑在明年缩小培训计划。

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Once upon a time, they actually were thinking about knocking it down.

从前，他们确实是在考虑拆除它。

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The fleeing Union soldiers threw down their guns and equipment, thinking only of escape.

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But it is a very handy way of thinking about, not just how to program, but how to break problems down into nice sized chunks.

但是它确实是一种很方便的思考方式，不仅仅限于编程序,在将程序分解为小部分时也很有用。

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This is one of the events, I think, that Yeats is thinking about in "The Fisherman" when he speaks of "great Art beaten down."

这就是叶芝，我想，在《打鱼人》里想法之一“,当他说，伟大的艺术败了“

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Shut vast parts of my thinking mode down.

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Right now high-stakes testing and crude top-down thinking is hampering both the public schools and the charter school movement.

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Rather than top-down thinking that leads us to make what we make because we can make it, it reveals the opportunity oceans that surround us.

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