Thus, a front doorstep covered with broken plates suggests that the person inside has a lot of friends.

因此，前门台阶上到处都是破碎的盘子，这说明里面的人有很多朋友。

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The shuttle often got stuck, causing a lot of broken ends.

梭子常常卡住，造成大量断头。

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I'm not sure who made this up, but it's likely the cause of a lot of broken dreams for a lot of people.

我不确信是谁编造了这条谚语，但是对很多人来说它极有可能是许多梦想破灭的原因。

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A lot of things happen as the body reacts to an injury like a broken bone.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Folks who have broken the law, worked here illegally, probably a lot of them, and now seek to compete equally with Americans for jobs."

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

"In a lot of the parts of the developing world this trust could be broken and because it's become so profitable to distribute,sell,manufacture, a lot of these products that are of low quality, and substandard."

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Through the histories of all Indian Tribe -- the treaty that were made between the United States and Indian Tribe, it's been broken a lot.

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Zynga becoming a commodity makes it open for examination, and there is a lot of broken bones behind all that bandage.

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"We have had a few broken bones and a lot of hypothermia, but nothing serious, nothing that you wouldn't recover from, " Dean says.

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