Despite the fact that it could just as easily be one of the others, the looming threat of cancer – and, in this case, having to remove her colon – was enough to throw us off-center.

尽管事实是很容易是其他病而非癌症，但癌症的威胁却在逼近---同时，在这种情况下，结肠必须切除----足以使我们偏离中心。

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Peel an apple, making sure the peeling comes off in one long strand and then throw it over your shoulder.

给一个苹果削皮，确保削下的皮成一条线，然后朝身后扔。

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If you take a pebble with a radius of about one centimeter and you throw it off a high building, it will reach a speed which will not exceed 75 miles per hour because of the air drag.

如果拿一个半径是，1厘米的小卵石，从高楼上扔下去，它的速度因为空气阻力，不过超过每小时75英里。

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And because it operates with few empty seats, common in the budget-conscious industry, "one late flight will throw off the rest of the day, " says spokeswoman Kristen Loughman.

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Such projects will throw off huge amounts of data, and one aim of the institute is to develop the large-scale database management tools required to synthesize and use all that information.

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