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Necktie knockers argue that a piece of fabric dangling under your chin – a trend that dates back to the 17th century – is just a pointless piece of decoration.

一味批评领带的人主张，一块悬挂在你下巴下方的布料——一个追溯到17世纪的趋势——仅仅是一个没有意义的装饰。

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Sometimes people give me a piece of their heart back, and it fills the space as best it can.

有时人们会把一片他们的心还给我，它会尽可能地填补这个空间。

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For a few precious frost-nipped weeks, these museum-piece cities of Olde World Europe flicker back to the Middle Ages -- not the ossified medieval throwbacks of soot-blackened cathedrals and tourist-bedeviled museums, but the living, breathing yesteryear of a bustling outdoor marketplace.

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Referring to the film's back-and-forth chronology, which he calls "a very daring piece of work, " he marvels at how Cassidy and Penn fit the pieces together.

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And then you are coming back from Chicken Holiday with a four-piece meal, a drumstick in your mouth, and there she is, walking out of Pathmark, wrestling a pair of plastic bags.

NEWYORKER: Miss Lora