It's like having a flaw in a piece of material - the longer you leave it, the weaker it gets.

这就像一块料子上有瑕疵一样—你把它放得越久，它就变得越不结实。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The house was built all of a piece in 1754.

整所房子是在1754年建造完成的。

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Her father walked down the path, debonair in a three-piece suit, hat, and cane.

她的父亲走下小路，温文尔雅，穿着三件套，头戴帽子，手执拐杖。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

A doughnut is a round piece of fried dough with a hole in the middle or filled with cream or jelly.

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Suppose I want to do little piece of code that's going to do planar geometry, points in the plane.

好，因此我需要一些,把这些东西收集到，一起的一些方式。

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and then the architecture of the building is, I think, in my opinion, nicer than any piece of art in the museum.

我认为，这个楼的建筑风格比博物馆里的任何一件艺术品都要美。

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Reduce the heat and whisk in the butter in piece by piece until melted.

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And obviously some of the information was -- came in piece by piece and is being reviewed and updated and elaborated on.

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This model in turn mapped to key challenges that Mr. Wang also presents in this piece in terms of priorities as indicated by a number of companies surveyed.

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