规则不能定得太死。

You can't lay down hard and fast rules.

《牛津词典》

我说这话，不是要定你们的罪。我已经说过，你们常在我们心里，情愿与你们同生同死。

I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.

youdao

只要我能扮演好“乔伊斯·卡洛尔·欧茨”，取得一定的成绩，我还不需担心自己会死或者垮掉——至少目前如此。

So long as, with reasonable success, I can impersonate "Joyce Carol Oates," it is not the case that I am dead and done for-yet.

youdao

If you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, you were history. That was all.

如果你在错误的时间出现在错误的地点,那你就将死定了

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They typically--they like to talk about the politics of it and this thing, that it's dead on arrival or it'ssomeone said it's an amateurish proposal.

他们不约而同地大书特书这个改革的政治色彩,或者说些这个计划死定了之类的话,有的人还说这是个欠考虑的改革计划。

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