The communist North called off reunions in response to what it considers South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's hard-line policy.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

The sheer cacophony of the clustered consonants in this line sets off -or has the potential to set off -- a powerful cluster of feelings.

这句诗中辅音全然不和谐，使人觉得,或者有意向让人觉得-，有力量的层叠之感。

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It starts out in a straight line and then it hops off on a diagonal.

马以直线出发但必须飞对角线。

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The force may taper off, the force may not be given by a straight line, but for modest deformations, every spring will have a linear regime in which the force is linearly proportional to the stretching.

它产生的力可能会渐渐消失,力的曲线可能不是一条直线,而有轻微的弯曲,每个弹簧都有一个线性区间,在这一区间内,力和伸长量是线性关系

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This pink line has to drop off from a all the way to c.

这条粉色的线要经过纵坐标a-c

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In fact, you don't have to draw it this complicated way, you could just draw it as a line with and hanging off of it, and you would know that that's a DNA molecule four bases long.

实际上你不必画的这么复杂,你只要画几个线条并标明连接的碱基,别人就能知道它是含四个碱基的DNA

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