1: Well, it was no great shakes. The story was mediocre and the acting was just so-so. I was bored except for that new actress - she can't act but she's a beautiful woman.

他说：嗯，这片子毫不出色。故事情节一般，演技也不过如此。除了里面的一位新的女明星之外，其它方面都让我觉得腻烦。这位新星不会演戏，但她是个美女。这里他用了习惯用语no great shakes表示这电影毫不出色、相当平庸。

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The responses at one company are typical: More than 75 percent of managers said the company was lousy, pretty bad, or just so-so at working across organizational boundaries.

其中一家公司很具代表性：超过75%的经理人认为公司的横向合作状况“非常糟糕”、“一无是处”，或者“勉强过得去”。

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How could she be so practical when he'd just told her something so shattering?

他刚对她讲了那么令人震惊的事情，她怎么还能这么务实？

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Before last week's announcement, the total number of so-called exoplanets outside our solar system was just over five hundred.

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So,the editors just buy--completely buy--the text's own mythology and produce all this apparatus around it to help us believe it, too.

所以这个编辑把原稿中的所有想象都保留了,而且说出那么一个有关联的装置让我们更信服。

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- So this commands, number two here -- can someone just quickly translate into the English what it is doing for us? Yeah?

所以这个命令，在这里的第二个-,你们谁能快速地把它翻译成,英语来说明这是干什么的吗？，请说？

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Surprising but true: Adobe Systems (ADBE) is one of the more ignored technology stocks these days, with Wall Street just kind of so-so on the developer of computer software products, including multi-media content on the creation, distribution and management of information.

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He retained the original front doors and fireplace--each stone was numbered so it could be replaced just so--adding new windows in the exact positions as those in the old building.

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It's just... the internet is an amazing thing, and everybody wants it everywhere -- if for anything just for e-commerce so I can just one-click something on Amazon on my damn phone.

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