Therefore, DIY can bring us fun and help us save money, but it is not always as easy as it is thought to be if we bite off more than we can chew.

因此，自己动手做（DIY）可以给我们带来乐趣，帮助我们省钱，但如果我们不自量力，它并不总是像想象的那么容易。

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Don't try to bite off too much.

不要尝试一次做得过多。

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Trying to bite off more than you can chew will lead to failure.

想要一口就吃成个胖子会让你失败的。

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Another proverb is,do not bite off more than you can chew.

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In other words, when you bite off your own project or when you start off by looking at someone else's projects, either that we looked at last week or some of the innumerable links we included in the specs, focus on just one piece of it, get that working, and then move on to the next.

换句话来说，当你开始着手去完成一件属于你自己的工程,或者，从参阅他人现在的作品，更或者是，参考工程设计书中,提到的无数链接，至关重要的一点是，你必须让它工作，然后再继续下一环节。

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Well partly this is just for fun-- this is what computer people sometimes do, intentionally or unintentionally but as also will see a really nice way to culminate the semester and frankly carve out a 10 hour block where you can bite off your final project's implementation surrounded by friends and the course's staff.

一部分只是因为好玩-,这是懂电脑的人有时会这么做，不管有没有意义,还有一部分原因是因为,以这种方式达到学期的高潮,并在朋友和这门课程教师的关注下,抽出10小时的时间完成最终的项目安装,是一件多么美妙的事啊。

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The pandas bite off the hard outer part of the stalks and eat the soft fibres within.

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Nissan also knows from experience that it's unwise to bite off more than you can chew.

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Even though the hubris may convince him that he can bite off more than he can chew, subordinates will not be so blind.

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