I love it here, but dad always used to tell me how happy he was to have gotten away, out from under the thumb of his raising.

我热爱这片土地，但是父亲过去总是告诉我能够离开那里，不再被这片土地养育着，让他欢欣鼓舞。

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Watching Vic sitting behind a desk, filling out reports, all alone under the thumb of the FBI, it seemed clear that he was paying for his crimes in a way that cut him deeper than prison ever could.

看着维克在FBI的节制下，坐在桌子后填写报告，而这也许就是他为本身所犯的罪行所付出代价，这代价可能比坐牢来的更大。

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The thumb-generation who can tap out atext-message under their desks while taking notes with the other hand — they’rein for it, too.

拇指一代，能一手在他们课桌下敲打出短信，还能用另一只手记笔记，他们确实很牛逼。

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Under the scheme, Washington brought the tobacco industry under the thumb of federal regulation.

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He stayed home to lend support to besieged democrats under the thumb of Robert Mugabe.

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But their complaint was against bourgeois flabbiness, not against business itself or keeping workers under the thumb.

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