Ford vowed that he would sooner burn his factory to the ground than build a single vehicle for war purposes.

福特起誓说，他宁愿把自己的工厂烧毁，也不为战争生产一辆汽车。

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It's immoral to rob someone's house and burn it to the ground, but is it immoral to market them into foreclosure?

抢劫别人的房子并将它烧为平地是不道德的，但是以营销的方式来赎回它们是不道德的吗？

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To keep people on the ground safe, it's best to deorbit a spacecraft with a strong burn of propellant, to slow it down at the right time.

为确保地面上人的安全，最好的方法是以一个强大的推进器燃烧来使宇宙飞船脱轨，在正确的时间使其慢下来。

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It would die soon, and they would burn a hole in the frozen ground to bury it.

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They planned to go to Lawrence and burn it to the ground.

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Once he had entered the city, Cyrus did not burn it to the ground (as usually happened with conquered cities at this period) but he freed the population from forced labor obligations, sent back to various shrines statues of gods, and allowed the people who had been brought to Babylon by the Babylonian kings to return to their homes.

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But the company has followed a theory that the best way to sow fertile financial ground for the future is to burn through a lot of cash now.

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January used to be a dumping ground for movies that the studios needed to burn off.

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