The gang took flight when they heard the police car.

这伙歹徒听见警车声就逃走了。

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Investors, understandably, took flight.

投资人理所应当地拔腿逃跑。

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Barbecue smoke took flight from the Kaufmans' backyard.

从考夫曼家的后院里，升腾起烧烤的烟气。

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So an astronaut on the flight of Gemini Four, Ed White,took that first frightening step into the unknown.

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I have to believe that the bulk of the killing took place on the flight and so that's why that works out.

但我相信,惨重的伤亡会在逃跑时出现,这就是为什么会算出那么惨重的伤亡数字

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His father was a democrat in czarist Russia, and he was quite a reformer. At the time that the Bolsheviks took over in 1919, there was a brief window of time prior to the family's flight.

他的父亲在沙皇俄国是一个民主党人，他是一个改革家，当时布尔什维克党在1919年统治者俄国,他们家在那之后很快就离开俄国。

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The latest iteration took flight in 2007 after Israeli private-equity firm Fortissimo Capital bought the firm.

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That investors quickly took flight suggests a marked wariness about any Washington, D.

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The first was timid, on some local topic, but in the second, my fancy took flight.

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