An idiomatic expression in one language could sound completely stupid when translated word for word into another.

在一种语言中的成语性词语，逐字逐句翻译成另一种语言的时候听起来会彻底地愚不可及。

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"Ta", originated from the Danish word "tak”, was the second-most popular expression of thanks, and is also commonly used in informal situations, along with phrases such as "nice one", and "brilliant".

“ta”源于丹麦语“tak”，是表达感谢的第二大常用表达方式，也常用于非正式场合，和“nice one”、“brilliant”等短语一起使用。

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A test assertion is a testable expression of one or more requirements in the Basic Profile.

测试断言是基本概要(Basic Profile)中一个或多个要求的可测试表达式。

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Well,experts say the expression appears to have been first used in the United States more than one hundred years ago.

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And to just give you a sense of what this is, the analytical expression that Heisenberg gave in one of its forms is that the uncertainty in the momentum a particle times the uncertainty in its position, this is the uncertainty.

给你说明一下什么是，分析的表述方式,海森堡给出的按照它的其中一种形式,那就是,粒子动量的不确定度乘以,位置的不确定度，这是不确定关系。

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More specifically, what does it mean to say that an individual can be seen ? as magnified in his or her country, or that one's country is simply the collective expression of certain individual traits of character?

更确切地说，如果我们提到一个人,可以被视为是其国家的放大镜,那意谓着什么，或是某人的国家,就是特定,个人特征的集体呈现？

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Expressions of contempt the unilateral expression in which one side of the mouth turns up. (These were especially evident when Armstrong was discussing the UCI the International Cycling Union).

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Then we looked for any spikes, any differences, in the expression pattern from one gene to another.

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At Kennesaw State University in Georgia, the Intensive English Program doesn't teach a slang expression until it is in use for more than one generation, says David Johnson, a professor of English and director of the program.

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