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| Last week, I told about the number one. |
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上周我们学习了关于数字一的短语， |
| Today, I will tell about expressions using other numbers. |
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今天，我们讲一下包含其他数字的短语。 |
| Some problems are difficult to solve. |
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有一些问题很难解决。 |
| But there are a lot of number expressions that can help. |
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但是有很多关于数字的表达方式可以起到作用。 |
| For example, if we put two and two together, |
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例如，如果我们根据事实推理， |
| we might come up with the right answer. |
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就可能得出正确的答案。 |
| We know that two heads are better than one. |
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我们知道人多智广。 |
| It is always better to work with another person to solve a problem. |
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与其他人一起工作来解决问题总比一个人好。 |
| Sometimes there are no two ways about it. |
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有时候你别无选择， |
| Some problems have only one solution. |
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有些问题只有一个解决方法。 |
| You cannot be of two minds over this. |
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你不能三心二意。 |
| But with any luck, we could solve the problem in two shakes of a lamb's tail. |
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但是有时候运气好，我们能立即解决问题。 |
| We could have our answers quickly and easily. |
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我们能够迅速简便地得到答案。 |
| Sometimes we can kill two birds with one stone. |
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有时候我们能够一举两得。 |
| That is, we can complete two goals with only one effort or action. |
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也就是说，我们可以通过一次努力行动完成两个目标。 |
| But we must remember that two wrongs don't make a right. |
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但是我们必须记住，两个错误不能构成一个正确。 |
| If someone does something bad to you, you should not do the same to him. |
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如果别人对你做了什么坏事，你不能冤冤相报。 |
| If you are going out with your girlfriend, or boyfriend, |
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如果你跟男朋友或女朋友外出， |
| you do not want another friend to go along on your date. |
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你不想另外一个朋友参加你的约会， |
| You can just say to your friend: two's company, three's a crowd. |
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你可以对你的朋友说：两人成伴三人不欢。 |
| When I was a young child in school, I had to learn the three R's. |
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当我还在读书的时候，我必须学习三个R。 |
| These important skills are reading, writing and arithmetic. |
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这三项重要的技能是阅读，写作和算术。 |
| These three words do not all start with the letter R. |
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这三个词并不都是以字母R开头的。 |
| But they have the sound of R. |
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但是他们的发音都包含R音。 |
| My teachers used to give three cheers when I did well in math. |
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我数学表现比较好时老师经常为我欢呼。 |
| They gave praise and approval for a job well done. |
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人们经常为完成的比较好的工作予以赞扬和认可。 |
| Some of my friends were confused and did not understand their schoolwork. |
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我有些朋友非常困惑，不能明白作业。 |
| They were at sixes and sevens. |
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他们简直乱七八糟。 |
| In fact, they did not care if they finished high school. |
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实际上，他们根本就不在乎能否中学毕业。 |
| They saw little difference between the two choices. |
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他们觉得两个选择没有任何区别， |
| Six of one, half a dozen the other? that was their position. |
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两者是半斤八两，各有千秋，这就是他们的立场。 |
| But they were really happy when they completed their studies |
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但是当他们从完成学业， |
| and graduated from high school. |
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从中学毕业时非常高兴。 |
| They were in seventh heaven. |
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他们简直非常愉快 |
| They were on cloud nine. |
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欣喜若狂。 |
| Nine times out of ten, students who do well in school find good jobs. |
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十有八九，在学校表现比较好的学生容易找到好工作。 |
| Some work in an office doing the same things every day at nine to five jobs. |
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有一些人在办公室每天做着同样的事情，过着朝九晚五的生活。 |
| You do not have to dress to the nines, |
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做这种工作，你不必打扮得时髦到极点， |
| or wear your best clothes, for this kind of work. |
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或者穿你最好的衣服。 |
| Last year, one of my friends applied for a better job at her office. |
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去年，我一个朋友申请办公室里一份比较好的工作。 |
| I did not think she would get it. |
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我认为她肯定得不到。 |
| I thought she had a hundred to one shot at the job. |
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我认为她得到这份工作的机会微乎其微。 |
| Other people at her office thought her chances were a million to one. |
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她办公室其他人认为她的机会也非常小。 |
| One reason was that she had been caught catching forty winks at the office. |
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一个原因是她被抓住在办公室小睡。 |
| She slept at her desk for short periods during the day. |
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白天她在办公室趴在桌子上睡了一小会儿。 |
| But her supervisor appointed her to the new job at the eleventh hour |
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但是她的主管委任了她这项新的工作。 |
| at the very last minute. |
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在最后时刻 |
| I guess her lucky number came up. |
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我猜她是中彩了。 |
