If too much is removed, the leaves will break into pieces.

如果去掉太多，叶子就会碎成碎片。

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If you dropped the glass, it would break into pieces.

如果你把杯子掉到地上，它就会摔碎的。

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A system that is over-reliant on prediction (through leverage, like the banking system before the recent crisis), hence fragile to unforeseen "black swan" events, will eventually break into pieces.

在出现不可预测的“黑天鹅”事件时，过分依赖预测的系统(如这次金融危机前的银行系统，通过使用杠杆)显得非常脆弱，最终将彻底粉碎。

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Physically,the rocks break down into smaller and smaller pieces.

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STUDENT: No. Not unless he wants to break the vase into little pieces and stuff it in the corners.

学生：【听不见】,教授：不，除非它想把花瓶打成碎片,然后把它们堆到角落里。

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Well, break it down into pieces. Suppose x is positive. Does it terminate? Sure. All right?

好，分开来讨论，假设x是整数,程序会终结么？肯定会的对不对？

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They break down into pieces that thicken the dish much like an egg does in a carbonara.

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They blur together elements that exist apart, or they break elements into pieces, bind up the world, contract it into hard little pellets of perception.

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Mr. COLE: Of course another option ultimately for the owners of Chrysler is to break it up into pieces.

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