I didn't honestly think he'd pass the exam but he came up trumps on the day.

说实话我以为他考试及不了格，但是那天他发挥出色，考得不错。

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Young people should never pass up the opportunity to go to university.

年轻人永远不应该放弃上大学的机会。

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A young boa constrictor bides its time on another bloom; the snake cares little for Ochroma nectar but wouldn't pass up a meal of hummingbird.

一只小蟒蛇在另一朵花上等待时机；蛇对蜜汁不感兴趣，但不愿放弃一顿蜂鸟餐。

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But he had to give up hope for both houses of Congress to pass bills before their August break.

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On the other hand, if you haven't been keeping up, I hope that you won't pass so I can tell you, look, you have to do things differently.

另一方面，如果你没有继续进行，我希望你不能够过，因此我要告诉你的是，看，你做的事分别很大。

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And that's all that's big enough to pass through or small enough to pass through. And if we go up even just one row on the periodic table to potassium, what we actually see is now that it's going to be too large, and, in fact, a potassium solvated with one water molecule won't go through our channel.

就是这样刚好大到它通过,或者说刚好小到它通过,即使我们再沿着周期表往下走仅仅一行到钾离子，我们看到的就将是它的个头太大了，实际上，溶解于一个水分子的单个钾离子,不能穿过我们的通道。

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Thomas came within five yards of the Blues tryline, but his pop-up pass was intercepted by Robinson.

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Shortly after, he held up a pass from Danny Murphy with his back to goal in the box before teeing up Duff to slam home from 12 yards.

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Gerbe then broke up a pass and his shot beat Henrik Lundqvist high on the glove side.

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