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once

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adv. 一次；曾经
conj. 一旦
n. 一次，一回

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Where are you in the cycle of renewal: Are you actively preserving the present, or selectively forgetting the past, or boldly creating the future? What advice would Leah give you to move you ahead on your journey? Once we're on the path of growth, we can continually move through the seasons of transformation and renewal.

The late Richard Hackman of Harvard University once argued, I have no question that when you have a team, the possibility exists that it will generate magic, producing something extraordinary… But don't count on it.

What people were like when they came in had greater consequence than what happened once they were there.

Trigger its built-in alarm system at once.

She has once run a pre-K program.

Once driverless cars are actually for sale, the early adopters will be the people who can afford to buy them.

Wireless devices will transmit signals so as to activate the alarm once something wrong is detected.

Sugar, alcohol and tobacco, economist Adam Smith once wrote, are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which have become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are, therefore, extremely popular subjects of taxation.

So, too, would the motion detectors in your home, so the thief will need to continue jamming once he's inside and searching for things to steal.

This once-in-alifetime event actually may take place twice in some folks’ lives.

When Jonathan Swift proposed, in 1729, that the people of Ireland eat their children, he insisted it would solve three problems at once: feed the hungry masses, reduce the population during a severe depression, and stimulate the restaurant business.

Once you have worthy opponents, set some ground rules so everyone understands responsibilities and boundaries.

Once the essay was flawless, she would take an evening to walk me through my errors.

Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calories from snacks.

Franz Kafka once said: Writing is utter solitude ( ' , 独处 ), the descent into the cold abyss ( ' , 深渊 ) of oneself.

Once, just after I returned from my year in Vienna, I was asked to translate for a German judge at an Olympiclevel horse event.

Once across, the ropes were tied down and wooden bridges were hung from them.

He had a terrible temper, and once threatened to kill another child.

they are not reused once a new edition comes out

All computers do is fetch and work with numbers, he once explained, but do it fast enough and "the results appear to be magic".

And most noticeable of all, there is the phenomenon of large urban and suburban high schools that have split up into smaller units of a few hundred, generally housed in the same grounds that once boasted thousands of students all marching to the same band.

I say you only live once and we work hard and what's the point if you can't go on holiday.

We can get a lot of our ingredients once a week from the UK," Tamlyn explains.

Tamlyn says that besides importing ingredients from Britain once a week, his restaurant also buys vegetables from the local markets

it takes a long time to restore nature once damaged

Once she lost a two-cent stamp and spent the night looking for it.

Get key information by reading just once or twice

Why did Donna go back to Brazil once again?

Finally, on June 7, McLaughlin once again demonstrated his carelessness by knocking down several mailboxes near the edge of the company's parking lot

But it's no longer what it once was in the region.

So some of the values they teach may not be as important in the culture as they once were.

It cannot be fully restored once damaged.

"For once, we are the ones who are blocking the traffic," he says delightedly.

An individual's genetics has a big influence on their height but once you average over whole populations, genetics plays a less key role.

And here's one more: We went on a campaign trip once in Italy, and my wife spent the whole time worrying about bats getting into her hair.

Experimental users may try drugs once or twice.

Franz Kafka once said: "Writing is utter solitude , the descent into the cold abyss of oneself."

I met a woman once, an Italian.

In Japan, once when I was in the studio audience of a TV cooking show, I was asked to go up on the stage and taste the beef dish that was being prepared and tell what I thought.

Large mammals once wandered the volcano's slopes, but today, foxes, wild cats, rabbits and mice are more common.

Once the essay was "flawless," she would take an evening to walk me through my errors.

Once we're on the path of growth, we can continually move through the seasons of transformation and renewal.

Once you are done demonstrating whatever concept was in the textbook, you throw away the pipe cleaners, the straws, the cardboard tubes.

Once you get beyond the initial learning curve, knitting and crocheting can lower heart rate and blood pressure.

Once you have worthy opponents, set some ground rules so everyone understands responsibilities and boundaries.

Once, just after I returned from my year in Vienna, I was asked to translate for a German judge at an Olympic level horse event.

She suggested that the brain can process just so much at once, and that activities like knitting and crocheting make it harder for the brain to register pain signals.

They have been huge supporters of the district's advanced mathematics program, which once began in the fourth grade but will now start in the sixth.

Thomas Edison, the famous inventor, once said "I've not failed."

When they interact, they aren't afraid to smell each other and will express themselves clearly and honestly. Once again, it seems we have a lot to learn from dogs.

The British traveler Charles Thompson spoke for many Grand Tourists when in 1744 he described himself as being impatiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which once gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with cabinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relics.

The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcase for the modem family tells the story of a century of social change.

That falls far short of the billions of dollars people once expected it to generate.

Parents are concerned that their children may get involved in criminal offences once they reach their teens.

No wonder parents worry their own kids might spin out of control once they hit the turbulent waters of adolescence.

It had, apparently, been fished out of existence; and the once mighty Newfoundland fleet now gropes about frantically for crab on the sea floor.

About once a week, I have a client that will bring up a new certification I've never even heard of and I'm in this industry, said Kevin Wilhelm, chief executive officer of Sustainable Business Consulting.

Putting in effect the policies in the agreement at once.

Perlow calls this vicious cycle the cycle of responsiveness: Once bosses and colleagues experience an employee's increased responsiveness, they increase their demands on the employee's time.

Consumers are becoming increasingly bored with what companies have to offer: A survey of 28,000 consumers in 28 countries released by Accenture found consumers are not as excited about technology as they once were.

Stacy is going to walk you through the step-by-step process of becoming a social worker and Mill will tell you about the range of options you have once you get your social work degree, as well as the high standards of responsibility the social workers must adhere to.

that is, once you build it up, it has to go somewhere.

Unfortunately for them ( ' , and often the taxpayers), our energy systems are a bit like an aircraft carrier: they are unbelievably expensive, they are built to last for a very long time, they have a huge amount of inertia ( ' , meaning it takes a lot of energy to set them moving), and they have a lot of momentum once they are set in motion.

So a heavy object, like a football player moving at a high speed, has a lot of momentum — that is, once be is moving, it is hard to change his state of motion.

Once you have started the boulder rolling, it develops momentum, which is defined by its mass and velocity.

Now, she attributes much of her understanding of college to that: But once I got to campus, it was a completely different ball game that no one really prepared me for.

By sanctioning this watered-down version of college, universities are catering to the social and educational needs of wealthy students at the expense of others who won't enjoy the financial backing or social connections of richer students once they graduate.

"About once a week, I have a client that will bring up a new certification I've never even heard of and I'm in this industry," said Kevin wilhelm, chief executive officer of Sustainable Business Consulting.

"Once we scale up, algorithms must be sensitive to tiny changes in identities and at the same time invariant to lighting, pose, age," Kemelmacher-Shlizerman said.

As marketing professors Silvia Bellezza, Neeru Paharia, and Anat Keinan recently explained in Hazard Business Review HBR, leisure time was once seen as an indicator of high social status, something attainable only for those at the top.

But once that money is gone, he says he doesn't know what he'll do.

But once these plants use up their stored reserve or tap out the underground supply, they cease growing and start to die.

By sanctioning this watered-down version of college, universities are "catering to the social and educational needs of wealthy students at the expense of others " who won't enjoy the financial backing or social connections of richer students once they gra

Consumers are becoming increasingly bored with what companies have to offer: A survey of 28,000 consumers in 28 countries released by Accenture found consumers are not as excited about technology as they once were.

Driving once seemed to be a very human skill.

Each featuring a different researcher, one of whom they'd met once two years earlier.

first, keeping up with the pace of technological change; recruiting high-quality staff in a time of skills shortages in it as a whole and in a highly competitive market; and the issue of retaining staff once they've been recruited and trained.

Here, the brightly colored scenes that once decorated a mansion are being dug up.

If an adverse reaction to a drug is serious, consult your doctor for advice at once.

Momentum is said to be "conserved", that is, once you build it up, it has to go somewhere.

Native plants are coming back, and the fox once again bound about carefree.

Now, she attributes much of her understanding of college to that: "But once I got to campus, it was a completely different ball game that no one really prepared me for."

Once armed with a method for gaining access to iPhones, the government could ask to use it proactively, before a suspected terrorist attack—leaving Apple in a bind as to whether to comply or risk an attack and suffer a public-relations nightmare.

Once every three or four years, when conditions are right, the lake is covered with the pink birds as they stop flight to breed.

Once Farrant and her colleagues feel they have a better sense of which switches to throw, they will have to find the best way to do so in useful crops.

Once one person looks at their phone, other people feel compelled to do the same, starting a chain reaction.

Once purchased and trained, this would allow the casual user to save money and time, freeing up precious space in our busy lives to read a good book.

Once the data and associated materials appear in a repository answering questions and handling complaints can take many hours.

Once the final charts and tables are ready, I have to check them and organize a presentation.

Once the interviewers have been briefed, I send the client a schedule and then they get back to me with deadlines.

Once upon a time, Americans thought that if they work hard enough even in the face of adversity, they would be rewarded with success.

Once we recognize that these things happen to us, we are half way to doing something about them.

Once you get out of there, you become that part, only you're using music instead of dialogue.

Online security cameras, intelligent lighting and a wealth of sensors that control both temperature and air quality are offering an unprecedented level of control, efficiency, and improvements to what were once classed necessary costs when running a busin

Perlow calls this vicious cycle the "cycle of responsiveness": Once bosses and colleagues experience an employee's increased responsiveness, they increase their demands on the employee's time.

Photography was once an expensive, laborious ordeal reserved for life's greatest milestones.

piaget argued that once adolescents enter the world of work, their newly acquired ability to form hypotheses allows them to create representations that are too ideal.

So a heavy object, like a football player moving at a high speed, has a lot of momentum — that is, once he is moving, it is hard to change his state of motion.

Stacy is going to walk you through the step-by-step process of becoming a social worker and mill will tell you about the range of options you have once you get your social work degree, as well as the high standards of responsibility the social workers mus

The best seek to alleviate the external pressures on their pupils while equipping them better to understand and handle the world outside一 at once sheltering them and broadening their horizons.

The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcase for the modern family tells the story of a century of social change.

The extreme isolation of these massive farms leaves them often unattended, and monitored only once or twice a year, which means if the livestock falls ill or requires assistance, it can be a long time for farmers to discover.

The order essentially asks Apple to hack its own devices, and once it is in place, the precedent could be used to justify law enforcement efforts to get around encryption technologies in other investigations far removed from national security threats.

The Tanzanian government has once again started mining the lake for soda ash, used for making chemicals, glass and detergents.

They help us take in more information, hold several ideas in mind at once and understand how different ideas relate to each other.

They typically appear about once in a decade.

Unfortunately for them and often the taxpayers, our energy systems are a bit like an aircraft carrier : they are unbelievably expensive, they are built to last for a very long time, they have a huge amount of inertia meaning it takes a lot of energy to se

When I re-entered the full-time workforce a few years ago after a decade of solitary self-employment, there was one thing I was looking forward to the most: the opportunity to have work friends once again.

Yet once they start growing, such plants seem not to retain the ability to hit the pause button on metabolism in their stems or leaves.

You may have heard that Coca-Cola once contained an ingredient capable of sparking particular devotion in consumers: cocaine.

An avalanche once closed the path, killing 63 people.

As I watch her chase after a squirrel, throwing her whole being into the here-and-now of an exercise that has never once ended in victory.

As Tolstoy once said, "one can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work."

As you may know already, it's a required meeting once a week.

At that moment, I remembered that my father once said, " the classroom is a place for learning and that include leaning from textbooks, and mistake as well."

Athens was not in the farthest background of his mind, but once man has a great and good idea, it is never completely lost.

But once I started, I simply couldn't put it down.

Gray wolves once were seen here and there in the Yellowstone area and much of the continental united states, but they were gradually displaced by human development.

Guests staying at plaza hotel will be given meal tickets worth $36 once they have produced 10 watt hours of electricity.

He hurried home, never once looking back to see if he was being followed.

He was just saying: "I'm king of this forest, and here is your reminder! " Once his message was delivered, he allowed me to stay and watch.

Holker once again opens is gardens in aid of the disadvantaged.

However, once I worked with statewide and local government, I realized that a better fit for me would be public policy, and now I am in the process of changing my area.

I became out of breath and the once injured ankle hurt badly.

I believe you will have a wonderful time here once you get to know everyone else.

I come here once a week, mostly Friday or Saturday.

I once wrote a paper on the influence of fairy tales on Roald Dahl's writing and it gave me a new appreciation for his strange and delightful words.

I saw a dark future for my once sweet daughter.

I still remember visiting a friend who'd lived here for five years and I was shocked when I learnt she hadn't cooked once in all that time.

If you have any doubts about your health, you'd better consult your doctor at once.

In a fire drill, the students should shut the door and leave at once.

It cannot be discovered once for all.

It was carried out once a year.

It was once common to regard Britain as a society with class distinction.

Lorry Chang goes to the Snoopy Café about once a week.

Many westerners who/that come to China cook much less than in their own countries once they realize how cheap it can be to eat out.

Measles, which once killed 450 children each year and disabled even more, was nearly wiped out in the united states 14 years ago by the universal use of the MMR vaccine.

Miss Longfield added: "Then there is this push to connect—if you go offline, will you miss something, will you miss out, will you show that you don't care about those people you are following, all of those come together in a huge way at once."

My dad never once said, "if you want to catch a fish you need to think like a fisherman."

Nasa is worried about two things: recovery time once astronauts return home, and, more importantly, how to maintain strength and fitness for the two and a half years or more that it would take to make a round-trip to mars.

News of the first kind pays its rewards at once.

No matter how attractive they look in the store, once I get them home they're unfailingly dry, hard, and tasteless.

Normally at least once a week, but she's now a volunteer teacher at a mountain village in Africa.

Once called the garden of Amsterdam, it still attracts travelers to come over to cycle and walk through the surrounding forests.

Once fire and emergency people arrive, Larry and the other man backed off and let them go to work.

Once I had a boy who worked experimentally with tinkertoys in his free time.

Once lighthouses had telephones, keepers would call each other to warn that the inspector was approaching.

Once that happened, I just kept pushing my studying further and further back in my day.

Once the damage is done, it will take many years for the farmland to recover.

Once they arrive, the tables are turned.

Once we have a common interest, a friendship can begin.

Once when I was facing a decision that involved high risk, I went to a friend.

Once when she was facing away, I reached out and carefully scratched her back with my finger, she didn't move.

Once you have reached a thousand dollars, you'll find you probably have the motivation to continue to save even more.

Once, a passenger next to me talked out loud on his mobile phone.

Once, after a trip to Hollywood, I returned to Australia so depressed and spent months in my bedroom painting, listening to Eckhart Tolle's music and trying to find myself again.

Once, while working overnight at a store, he let a homeless man sleep in his truck.

Our generation once joined hands and stood firm at times of national emergency.

Passenger pigeons once flew over much of the united states in unbelievable numbers.

Prevention is key, scientists says because once ecosystems pass their tipping point, it is remarkably difficult for them to return.

Once I look up something on the Internet, I don't need to keep all the details for future use—I know where to find that information again and can quickly and easily do so.

The obvious one is money: eating out once or twice a week may be affordable but doing this most days adds up.

The story once again tells us that one good turn deserves another.

Their wings can bridge the gap between lines, resulting in electrocution if they touch two lines at once.

These results, once again, lead to concrete advice: "once an individual begins volunteering, continued efforts might focus on developing a volunteer role identity.

TV Ears is so comfortable that Jack forgets he has them on ! he can once again hear and understand the dialogue.

We do give you on the job training, once every month during normal hours.

When I was 17, I read a magazine article about a museum called the mcnay, once the home of a watercolorist named marian mcnay.

With 500 years of history, Hampton Court was once the home of four kings and one queen.

Yet, now that I'm growing and the world I once knew as being so simple is becoming more complex, I find myself needing a way to escape.

But don't bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the hippocampus, they're there to stay.

To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.

Rage Against the Haze failed once state funding was cut.

Once a discovery claim becomes public, the discoverer receives intellectual credit.

Nobel Laureate and physiologist Albert Azent-Gyorgyi once described discovery as “seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”

Sadly, the spirit of inquiry once at home on campus has been replaced by the use of the humanities and social sciences as vehicles for publicizing “progressive,” or left- liberal propaganda.

King Juan Carlos of Spain once insisted “kings don’t abdicate, they dare in their sleep.

Buy all your clothes once with a stylist instead of shopping alone, one article of clothing at a time.

Kennedy once said that a country’s GDP measures “everything except that which makes life worthwhile.”

A small but vocal group of Hawaiians and environments have long viewed their presence as disrespect for sacred land and a painful reminder of the occupation of what was once a sovereign nation.

By the time Shakespeare was twenty-five, Lyly, Peele, and Greene had made comedies that were at once popular and literary; Kyd had written a tragedy that crowded the pit; and Marlowe had brought poetry and genius to triumph on the common stage - where they had played no part since the death of Euripides.

Winston Churchill once walked its corridors and Japanese emissaries met here with Secretary of State Cordell Hull after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

"Once on the calendar I protect this time like I would a doctor's appointment or important meeting", he writes.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 80 percent of college students end up changing their majors at least once.

And in that, once more, we need to look to the example of our children, to whom happiness is not a goal but a natural byproduct of the way they live.

Biologists estimate that as many as 2 million lesser prairie chickens一-a kind of bird living on stretching grasslands - once lent red to the often grey landscape of the mid-western and southwestern United States.

But don't bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the brain, they're there to stay.

But once we rip off the band-aid, tuck our smartphones in our pockets and look up, it doesn't hurt so bad.

Chewing gum, once bought primarily by adolescent boys, is now featured in commercials as a breath freshener and teeth cleanser for use after a meal.

Even if families are less likely to sit down to eat together than was once the case, millions of Britons will none the less have partaken this weekend of one of the nation's great traditions: the Sunday roast.

Following the explosion of creativity in Florence during the 14th century known as the Renaissance, the modern world saw a departure from what it had once known.

Google and microsoft are among companies that already have these "single sign-on" systems that make it possible for users to log in just once but use many different services.

He quotes a giant of classical economies, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like "children who pick the plums out of their pudding to eat them at once" rather than putting them aside to be eaten last.

I truly believe that once you get that first word out everything else will just flow.

In other words, at a time when the working class has turned the country on its political head, frustrated that the opportunity that once defined America is vanishing, one obvious solution is staring us in the face.

Manufacturing is not the economic engine that it once was.

My favorite actor will smith once said, "Fear is not real."

Once on the calendar I protect this time like I would a doctor's appointment or important meeting, he writes.

Otherwise outside directors will follow the example of Ms. Simmons, once again very popular on campus.

Robert F. Kennedy once said that a country's GDP measures "everything except that which makes life worthwhile."

Sadly, the spirit of inquiry once at home on campus has been replaced by the use of the humanities and social sciences as vehicles for publicizing "progressive, " or left- liberal propaganda.

The job security that the US economy once offered to high school graduates has largely evaporated.

Today is no different, with academics, writers, and activists once again warning that technology is replacing human workers.

When there is rapid improvement in the price and performance of technology, jobs that were once thought to be immune from automation suddenly become threatened.

winston Churchill once walked its corridors and Japanese emissaries met here with Secretary of State Cordell Hull after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

You won't be eating out a lot, but save your pennies and once every few months treat yourself to a set lunch at a good restaurant —￡1.75 a week for three months gives you ￡21 — more than enough for a three course lunch at Michelin-Starred Arbutus.