You use these people, and the bits of behavior or characteristics as a starting point as you begin to sketch out your characters.

你会以这些人物以及他们的行为、性格特征为出发点来勾画人物形象。

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Such ideas help sketch out a plan.

这些想法可以勾勒出一个计划。

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The little boy can sketch out a horse quickly.

这小男孩子能迅速成地色画出一匹马。

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And if you haven't yourself dived into your own problem set zero, whose PDFs are available online, realize that if something like this, given that it's a minute or so long, kind of looks you know, despite the cutesiness of it, kind of overwhelming in that you don't really know where to begin, how could you possibly sketch out this whole story line.

如果你还没有真正沉下心来,看习题集0，网上可以提供这些PDF文件，好好地感受一下像这样的东西，假定只有一分钟左右这么长,先不管它外表看起来是否可爱,也不管它让人无从下手的压迫感,你怎样才能勾勒出,整个故事最初的框架呢？

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Sadly Mr Obama has repeatedly failed to sketch out how he might go about that.

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First, he must sketch out his ideas about what government should and should not do.

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On the one hand, she was trying to sketch out a canon for a young art form.

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