It's like having a flaw in a piece of material - the longer you leave it, the weaker it gets.

这就像一块料子上有瑕疵一样—你把它放得越久，它就变得越不结实。

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The house was built all of a piece in 1754.

整所房子是在1754年建造完成的。

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Her father walked down the path, debonair in a three-piece suit, hat, and cane.

她的父亲走下小路，温文尔雅，穿着三件套，头戴帽子，手执拐杖。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

A doughnut is a round piece of fried dough with a hole in the middle or filled with cream or jelly.

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Suppose I want to do little piece of code that's going to do planar geometry, points in the plane.

好，因此我需要一些,把这些东西收集到，一起的一些方式。

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and then the architecture of the building is, I think, in my opinion, nicer than any piece of art in the museum.

我认为，这个楼的建筑风格比博物馆里的任何一件艺术品都要美。

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Reduce the heat and whisk in the butter in piece by piece until melted.

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And obviously some of the information was -- came in piece by piece and is being reviewed and updated and elaborated on.

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And we don't just believe in every piece of it, the President doesn't just believe in every piece of it, but the vast majority of the American people believe in every piece of it, as data has shown.

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