Over three weekends of hard work, Sally turned her design into a real, working go kart and painted it light blue.

经过三个周末的辛勤工作，莎莉把她的设计变成了一辆真正的、能够运行的卡丁车，并把它涂成了浅蓝色。

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In order to live up to their parents' expectations, most of the kids have to study hard even over vacations.

很多孩子为了不辜负家长的希望，甚至假期也要辛苦学习。

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If you hit it really hard and a long way, it goes over the boundary.

如果你真的击得很重，打得很远，它就会过界。

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But the bright lights conceal a gambling area where flinty-eyed dealers watch over hard-core gamblers, many lined up three deep at the blackjack tables, loudly outbidding one another for hands.

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It was "deeply dismayed by the actions of the Zimbabwean government - which is riding roughshod over hard-won democratic rights", the party said.

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The outcome in Iraq is not so clear-cut, but characterizing it as a victory is the triumph of hope over hard-won lessons.

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