The task won't feel so overwhelming if you break it down into small, easy-to-accomplish steps.

如果你把这个任务分解成一个个容易完成的小步骤，就不会觉得那么难以应对。

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"Not knowing the law doesn't mean the law will treat you any differently if you break it." says David Allen Green, a lawyer from the UK. So, do you think we'd better spend a minute or two thinking about the words or emojis we use on social media before we press "send"?

“不懂法律并不意味着当你触犯法律时，法律会对你网开一面。”来自英国的律师大卫·艾伦·格林说。那么，你觉不觉得我们应该在按下“发送”之前，最好先花一两分钟思考一下我们在社交媒体上使用的文字或表情符号？

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You break it, you buy it!

打破了，你就要买了去吧！

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You can spend a great deal of time making an object only for it to break in the kiln.

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We'll talk more about this later, but it often happens that when you change your program to solve one problem you break it, and things that used to work don't work.

我们以后会更多的去讨论者一点，但是经常发生的情况是当你因为,一个问题修改你的程序的时候,你修改了程序,但原来没问题的模块。

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I can take a heat pack, like the kind you buy at a pharmacy. Break it up. It gets hot.

买来的热装罐在里面打破,它就变热了。

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If you break it, as Colin Powell remarked in another context, you own it.

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Broadly speaking, when you break it down, screenwriting consists of three important parts: character development, dialogue, and structure.

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But when you break it down, that is just five votes per precinct.

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