L You had better take things as they are.

你最好接受事物的现状。

youdao

I admit it does; but we have got to take things as they are.

我承认是这样的，但我们得到了他们所拥有的东西。

youdao

Well, we must take things as they are and make the best of it.

所以我们必须努力做事并力求做到最好。

youdao

Another is how much it's processed and how if you take things that started out as food like wheat or corn, and then they're processed many different ways, and things are added to them or done to them that change their chemical properties, does that affect whether we would consider them food?

另一个是它们被加工过程和程度,比如对于用来食用的麦子和玉米,有很多种加工方式,可以向它们添加一些东西,或进行一些加工去改变它们的化学性质,这会影响我们去判断它们是否为食品吗

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To make life better and not take things as they are.

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But once these things are out there, they take on a life of their own, re-cited and re-enunciated as they are by readers and then their own readers and listeners in turn.

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