It is used when someone tells something that was supposed to be secret.

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It can be used as a publishing medium and something that you can interact with, instead of something that is a burden to receive.

它可以用作一个发行媒介,成为你可以与之互动的东西，而不再是一个负担。

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That used to be something that was like 80s, 90s, but now it's definitely coming back.

这种曾是八九十年代的东西，现在无疑又开始流行了。

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But Aristotle used to think that if you want something to move, there has to be some agency making it move.

但亚里士多德认为,如果要让物体运动,那就必须有某种作用让它运动

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But there's extra, again, insult to injury, when the person's got to remember that he used to be something extraordinary, a ruler.

但当这人不得不记着，他曾经位高权重，是统治者的时候,这又一次，是在伤口上撒盐。

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There will always he suggests appear to be something ad hoc about the methods used in the study of politics.

主题允许多少精准性？我们如何得知,事情总有，他也提到,总有一些事是特别的。

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Well, again, it used to be believed that the brain is wired up like a computer, like a PC or a Mac or something like that, but we know this can't be true.

人们曾经以为大脑是像计算机那样,组装起来的,像台个人电脑或苹果电脑,但我们知道这种观点是不对的

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It's to be used when you don't like something.

只有当你不喜欢某事的时候，才应该用这个句型。

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It would be quickly ground into flour and used before it even has time to ferment, to quickly offer something to the deity again, to procure favor for the rest of the crop.

很快弄成面粉，还来不及发酵,只为了敬献给神,为了博得神的喜爱，保佑这些庄稼。

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When you get a bagel, it used to be you'd get something this size, and now you get something that's really, really much bigger.

百吉饼,过去人们吃的是冰球大小的,而现在已经比过去大了非常多

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