那样做不会冲走全部的污水，但应该能疏通一下发臭的下水道。

That won't flush out all the sewage, but it should unclog some stinking drains.

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很可能你目前没有完全确定要从职业中得到什么，在这种情况下，你肯定还没有具备做老板的素质。

The chances are you haven't fully decided what you want from your career at the moment, in which case you're definitely not cut out to be a boss yet!

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贫困迫使她把他交给了寄养家庭, 但她是在明确她最终一定能重新获得抚养权的条件下才这样做的。

Poverty forced her to surrender him to foster families, but only on the understanding that she could eventually regain custody.

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or actually ask the TFs in section to hand out a meter exercise that you can do for next week.

或者是叫助教在课间,发下个星期你们要做的关于节拍的作业。

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Now I want to contrast that with what we see from Nabokov in this essay, Good Readers and Good Writers.

现在我要把这和《好读者和好作者》这篇文章中,纳博科夫的观点做下比较。

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Okay? So when you say that what you're doing is scientific in a context of this sort, you are making yourself vulnerable.

对吧？，所以在这种情况下你说自己所做的是科学的时,你就使自己站不住脚了。

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