Even though the written word C-A-T looks nothing like a cat, and the spoken word "cat" sounds nothing like a cat sounds, when someone says the word out loud, you're able to conjure up an image.

尽管猫的文字，看起来一点不像一只猫，口语“猫”听起来不像一只猫的叫声，但是，有人大声念这个词的时候，你可以在脑海里变出了一个猫的形象。

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To prove their point they scaled up a chicken to the size of T. rex and found the giant chicken probably would not have been able to stand.

为了证明他们的观点，他们按比例把一只鸡放大到像霸王龙一样大，结果发现这只巨鸡可能站都站不住。

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"My, doesn?t she move her lips fast, " they would say, meaning that I'd be able to keep up with the word outside Chinatown.

“天哪，你看她嘴唇（动得好快）多灵巧，”他们总会这么说，这就意味着我将能够融入唐人街外面的世界。

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"They were excited to go up to snowboard today and we weren't able to deliver that.

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He couldn't--He ended up not being able to keep a job, not being able to deal with people.

他不能，他不能继续工作，不能与人交流。

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So, maybe you wanted a really fine pot of the kind you used to be able to walk to the corner and pick up at a pottery shop, but you can't get now, so you would want to buy what the Corinthians sell. Guess what?

所以或许过去在大街的,任意一间陶器店里,你都能找到精致的陶盆,现在却找不着,那么你该选择,科林斯人的哪些商品呢,想想看

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Pierre said she wasn't able to set up phone service from within that Caribbean country, so she had a friend take care of the transactions with T-Mobile from the United States.

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