After surveying every option, a person is more acutely aware of the opportunities they had to turn down to pursue just one career.

在调查了每一种选择之后，一个人会更加敏锐地意识到，为了追求一种职业，他们不得不放弃一些机会。

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Turn it down to set the mood, or turn it up to start the dancing! What's it like to swim like a fish?

把它调小来调节气氛，或者把它调大来开始跳舞！像鱼一样游泳是什么感觉？

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It would be folly to turn the offer down.

拒绝这个建议是愚蠢之举。

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I want to turn loose my hold on everything, and go sailing down,down, just like one of those poor,tired leaves."

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It occurred to me here I could take that theme and turn it upside down against itself and it would work.

我突然发现,我能把这个主旋律颠倒过来并合在一起,还挺行得通的

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So, we know it's going to go up and turn around and come down.

我们知道物体会先上升然后调转方向下落

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Sometimes it seems rude to turn down an invitation to go out for cocktails.

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This was the mantra Warren Buffet used to turn down a chance to invest in Microsoft in 1980.

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Why are designers willing to turn down paying jobs to spend time and tens of thousands of dollars of their own cash on a charity show house?

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