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I 'll break it for him,said I,now flying into a passion again at this unaccountable farrago of the landlord's. It's broke a'ready,said he. Broke,said IBROKE,do you mean? Sartain,and that's the very reason he can not sell it,I guess. Landlord,said I,g

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Lang also got him into the Hewlett-Packard Explorers Club, a group of fifteen or so students who met in the company cafeteria on Tuesday nights. 朗还让乔布斯加入了惠普探索者俱乐部，这是一个每周一次的聚会，每周二晚在公

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Todd: Eucharia, can you talk about where you are from? Eucharia: Im from Ireland and Im from the second biggest city in Ireland which is Cork. Now the name Cork doesnt come from wine bottle cork, it comes from the irish word kirkig which is marsh so

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BBC News South Korean prosecutors carried out further raids on businesses of the Lotte Group, a sprawling conglomerate at the centre of a bribery probe. At least 10 divisions were raided including its chemical and confectionary businesses, a spokesma

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When Johnson came back in January 2000 to be interviewed again, Jobs suggested that they take a walk. 2000年1月，约翰逊来参加第二轮面试，乔布斯建议他们一起出去走走。 They went to the sprawling 140-store Stanford Shopping

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This account cleared up the otherwise unaccountable mystery, and showed that the landlord, after all, had had no idea of fooling me 这番说明,总算把原来那个莫名其妙的疑团解开了,也表明这个店老板毕竟没有存心要作弄我

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Dany did not need to look. She was barefoot, with oiled hair, wearing Dothraki riding leathers and a painted vest given her as a bride gift. 丹妮不用瞧便知，她赤着双脚，涂了发油，身上穿的是作结婚礼物的多斯拉克皮衣和

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Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe falls 10 feet from its mother' s womb and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over and tucks its legs under its body. From this position it considers the world for the f

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On March 18, 1991, Steven Paul Jobs, thirty-six, married Laurene Powell, twenty-seven, at the Ahwahnee Lodge in Yosemite National Park. 1991年3月18日，36岁的史蒂夫保罗乔布斯和27岁的劳伦鲍威尔在优山美地国家公园的阿瓦尼

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Jhogo understood that. One of the others barked out a comment, and the Dothraki laughed. Irri told her, Quaro thinks you should take an ear to teach him respect. 这话乔戈听得懂。有人喊了一句，其他多斯拉克人纷纷大笑。伊丽告