You have to look the part to earn respect. When your appearance is a wreck, people automatically assume your whole life is a wreck.

你必须要留意能赢得尊重的自我形象。假如你是邋遢不堪的，人们会想当然认为你全部的生活也就是一个烂摊子。

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The wreck appearance of planed bamboo surface was studied and its mechanism was analyzed to explore the cause of bamboo surface wreck during planing.

为揭示造成竹材切削过程表面破坏性不平度的原因，合理制定竹材切削工艺，研究了竹材刨切过程表面破坏现象，分析了其破坏机理。

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The wreck of the Lady Elgin remains the worst loss of life on open water in the Great Lakes.

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They live without nomoi and they wreck not of one another, that is to say,each family lives by itself.

独眼怪没有法律,如同一盘散沙,就是说,他们每个家庭都自给自足

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a financial train wreck between the deficit social security and medical care.

就是社保和医保赤字的烂摊子。

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In other words, what appeared to be a train wreck was truly a train wreck.

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"Any wreck that is recovered has to be reported to the reciever of wreck so that I can contact the legal owner and ensure that the salvager gets rewarded, " she expained.

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Cyrus is getting older, but she's not in and out of court ( no offense, Lindsay), or getting into car wreck after car wreck ( no offense, Amanda), so isn't the "good girl gone bad" label pushing it?

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