It was a fateful decision, one which was to break the Government.

那是一项重大的决定，一个将使政府垮台的决定。

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I'll give a prize to the best idea. Talking of good ideas, here's one to break the ice at a wedding reception.

我将奖励最佳主意。说起好主意，这里就有一个，能活跃婚礼气氛。

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There was no one nearby who might see him trying to break into the house.

当时附近没有人可能看见他试图闯进那所房子。

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The young man reached out to break off one of the purple flowers.

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We'll talk more about this later, but it often happens that when you change your program to solve one problem you break it, and things that used to work don't work.

我们以后会更多的去讨论者一点，但是经常发生的情况是当你因为,一个问题修改你的程序的时候,你修改了程序,但原来没问题的模块。

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If you go to Denmark and you break a $100 bill, you're going to be given one of these, undoubtedly, the 500 kroner note, which is worth about $75-80, and it has Niels Bohr on it.

如果你去了丹麦，换了100美元，毫无疑问，你会得到其中一个像这样的，500挪威币，约为75-80美元，上面有波尔的头像。

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They know that it takes a generation to build a military and only a few years to break one.

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Recently Holding seemed to break one of his rules.

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Lady Gaga's Born This Way was one of the only records to break the one million barrier in its first week, and it was sold at heavy discounts by online retailers.

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