Inside the box, Sunee saw something uncommon. It was a red silk umbrella. She had never seen anything like it! "Shipping a package overseas used to take a lot of time," said Grandmother "Packages traveled by train and ship. It could take many months to get a package from across the ocean. How long did your package take to arrive?"

在盒子里，苏尼看到了一些不寻常的东西。那是一把红色的绸伞。她从来没有见过这样的东西！“过去寄一个包裹到海外要花很多时间，”祖母说，“包裹要乘火车和轮船。大洋彼岸收到包裹可能需要好几个月的时间。你的包裹花了多长时间到达？”

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Long ago, people used to do things for other people simply because they themselves were going to get something in return.

很久以前，人们习惯于帮助别人只是因为作为交换他们会得到一些东西。

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It can be hard to get used to not holding something and having something in your mouth. If you have this problem, stock up on carrot sticks, sugar-free gum, mints, toothpicks, or even lollipops.

用一些其他的东西替代香烟或许你还很难适应嘴里不叼一些东西的感觉，如果你有这个困扰，那么就嚼点胡萝卜条，或者无糖口香糖，或者薄荷糖，牙签，甚至是棒棒糖。

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Something Sajjan Gohel says passengers will just have to get used to.

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When you get a bagel, it used to be you'd get something this size, and now you get something that's really, really much bigger.

百吉饼,过去人们吃的是冰球大小的,而现在已经比过去大了非常多

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So there's some--and will eventually get used to make something else.

其中的某些原子,将被用来构成其他的东西

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The dangers associated with partnering with the enemies' organizational Trojan horses can only be compounded if the American people perceive re-labeling the "war" a "struggle" as meaning that it is a condition, not a conflict - something we have to get used to living with, not something we have to defeat, lest it destroy us.

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"We want to create the feeling you used to get in record stores when somebody would hand you something and say, 'You have to hear this, ' " says Amy Schriefer, who supervises "First Listen" and the live events.

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This led them to a related finding: The words that manage to be born now become more popular than new words used to get, possibly because they describe something genuinely new (think "iPod, " "Internet, " "Twitter").

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