If we're going to try again, policymakers need to convince us-really convince us-that we won't end up flat on our backs.

如果我们真的要再尝试一次的话，我们需要政策制定者能够说服我们(我是说确确实实的说服我们)，并保证我们不会无功而返。

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On April 13, 1964, nearly an adolescent and watching television from the linoleum floor of her mother's walk-up flat in something deep inside of her.

在1964年4月13日，她已成长为一个青少年，在她母亲那间无电梯的公寓的油布地毯上，电视里的一些东西深深地触动了她。

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They set up house together in a small flat in Brighton.

他们一同在布赖顿的一个小公寓里安了家。

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"You look for a banjo, then you look for a flat top guitar, got to have the stand-up bass, a fiddle works really well, and then you get the old mandolin in because a mandolin really has got some good sound to it too."

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This tube, this hollow tube, which food passes through is made up of many, many epithelial cells which directly abut one another and would be a flat sheet except that it's rolled up into a tube.

这个管道,这个中空的管道,食物可以穿行其中,而它就是由许多许多上皮细胞构成的,上皮细胞一个连着一个,形成了一个平坦的细胞层,但实际上它们还在肠管中卷成管状

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We should call it E-flat and put it up on the E line because there's kind of rule here that you have to use up each letter name in turn, each letter name in turn.

我们应该称之为降E,把它放在E的谱线上,因为这算是一个规则,要依次使用每个字母,依次用每个字母

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Projects tackled on very little sleep take twice as long, make me twice as tired, and often end up flat and uninspired.

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Karsten also offered a frank (and accurate) early view that Tennessee had shown up flat for its New Year's Eve matchup with Maryland.

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Born in New York City 48 years ago, he was adopted by relatives who raised him in their walk-up flat on Chicago's tough South Side.

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