More than once, Mr. Dimmesdale had gone into the pulpit, with a purpose never to come down its steps, until he should have spoken words like the above.

丁梅斯代尔先生不止一次在登上布道坛时打定主意，不把上述这番话说出来，就不再走下来。

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The deliberate cruelty of his words cut her like a knife.

他故意说的残酷无情的话对她像刀割一样。

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The vowel in words like "my" and "thigh" is not very difficult.

在“”和“”这样的单词中的元音并不难发。

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To write the book, Ruth Krauss asked very small children how they would define words like "face," "dog" and "party."

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We are, in other words, attempting to grasp it in a sentence that might read something like, "What the author means to say is--" Right?

换言之，我们在尝试着在这样一句话中掌握它，作者想说的是--，是吧？

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In other words, chance is already fated. The thing that stands for randomness in this book, the thing that looks like ordinary detail, has already been arranged to give you artistic pleasure.

换言之，机遇已经是命中注定的，这代表了,书中的那些随意安排，那些看起来普通的细节，其实已经据安排给大家一种美的享受。

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She asked the audience for Mad Lib-like words for the song.

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Take any introductory marketing class and you'll learn the early adopters -- in other words, the nerds who like playing with the very latest stuff -- set trends and influence others.

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In other words, teachers like the idea of creativity as long as its manifestations are not disruptive.

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