If too much is removed, the leaves will break into pieces.

如果去掉太多，叶子就会碎成碎片。

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If you dropped the glass, it would break into pieces.

如果你把杯子掉到地上，它就会摔碎的。

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A system that is over-reliant on prediction (through leverage, like the banking system before the recent crisis), hence fragile to unforeseen "black swan" events, will eventually break into pieces.

在出现不可预测的“黑天鹅”事件时，过分依赖预测的系统(如这次金融危机前的银行系统，通过使用杠杆)显得非常脆弱，最终将彻底粉碎。

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Physically,the rocks break down into smaller and smaller pieces.

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STUDENT: No. Not unless he wants to break the vase into little pieces and stuff it in the corners.

学生：【听不见】,教授：不，除非它想把花瓶打成碎片,然后把它们堆到角落里。

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Well, break it down into pieces. Suppose x is positive. Does it terminate? Sure. All right?

好，分开来讨论，假设x是整数,程序会终结么？肯定会的对不对？

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However, without a natural way to untangle itself from the majoritarian knot in which we have become ensnarled, the system probably has to fray and fracture at the periphery and eventually break into pieces and fall away from the center before it will be possible to restore liberty, justice and prosperity for all.

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They break down into pieces that thicken the dish much like an egg does in a carbonara.

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They blur together elements that exist apart, or they break elements into pieces, bind up the world, contract it into hard little pellets of perception.

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