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广告商、营销者和公司会挖空心思想让你增加需求。Advertisers, marketers, and corporations will do everything in their power to make you want more.
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寒假期间，他挖空心思整理个人简历，努力提高应付英文面试的技能。
He's going all out to fix his resume and upgrading his English interview skills during winter break.
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现在很难不对本书作者产生一种印象，即她只是在挖空心思地将一个无法成书的主题拼凑成一部著作。
It is hard to avoid the impression that the author is straining to make a book out of a subject that does not really amount to one.
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他们用不着挖空心思拉拢存款人；金融市场里轻而易举就能筹到银行所需的一切款项进行放贷和其他事宜。
They wouldn't worry too much about building a big base of depositors; in the financial markets it was easy to raise all the money a bank needed to finance its lending and other activities.
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相反，斯堪的纳维亚半岛和芬兰的居民就不用经常面对各国官僚挖空心思想出来的古怪问题——有173个国家或地区不用他们申请签证(总共只有223个)。Scandinavians and Finns, by contrast, can travel to 173 countries or territories (out of a possible 223) without the need to fill in forms with curious questions dreamt up by bureaucrats.
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每个人都挖空心思得到他所能得到的，俗话说“落后者遭殃”
（Devil take the hindmost）。Each was out to get what he could forhimself, and devil take the hindmost.
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那是尽是挖空心思的意象的诗篇。That is a poem full of precious images.
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骗子：这些作品中，许多角色都挖空心思愚弄或欺骗他人。
Tricksters: many characters in these works try to fool or deceive others.
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城里人说他们欢迎民工，但是有些人挖空心思的绕着弯的将他们挡在定居的外头。
Cities say they welcome migrants, but some find roundabout ways of keeping them from settling.
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我的范妮是世界上最聪明的女人，我一直在挖空心思找她的缺点，可就是找不到。
My Fanny is the most intelligent woman in the world. I have been searching and searching to find a flaw in her - but there's not one.
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之后在电影《王牌播报员》中，虚构的新闻主持人朗•伯甘蒂(威尔·法瑞尔饰)则挖空心思想和自己的女性竞争者发生关系。
And then there's the fictional news anchor from Anchorman, Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell), who desperately tries to sleep with his new female rival.
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即使在我挖空心思地寻找写作素材时，我的许多旅行也都是平淡如水、无甚可写的。
Even when I'm in search of a story, many of my trips are uneventful.
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晋君挖空心思，也没能想出个好办法。
The king of Jin racked his brains, but could not work out a plan.
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这不正是我们挖空心思孜孜以求想要的过程和结果吗？
This is not exactly what we want to rack their brains pursued the process and results?
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他们一直挖空心思用新方式伤害我们的国家和我们的人民，我们也一样。They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
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其实我也是个俗人，也想挖空心思多挣点钱，把好的东西多往家里搬点，让家人在物质生活上都过得更舒坦一些。
Actually, I'm a vulgar man, in order to let my family live better. I want to earn lots of money and then put many things moved back to my house.
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他挖空心思想勾引那所学院中最漂亮的女生。He is making a play for the prettiest girl in the college.
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经济变革在中国产生了大量的上层和中产阶级，这两个群体的人挖空心思来炫耀他们的财富。
The economic changes spawned a new upper and middle class in China, and members of both groups sought ways to display their wealth.
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他们总是挖空心思，想出些捞钱的点子。听我的话，别去参与。They are always dreaming up some money-making scheme or other. Take my tip and have nothing to do with them.
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他把所有的时间都用来注视天空中飞来飞去的海鸥，挖空心思盘算着他和伊卡洛斯怎样才能从岛上逃走。
He spent all his time watching the gulls fly freely about in the air. He never stopped wondering how he and Icarus might escape from the island.
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他挖空心思，反而把事情全盘弄糟了。
He contrived to make a mess of the whole thing.
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长牙发现以后，他们又挖空心思地以各种方式把它们安在它的头上。
When tusks were discovered, they were forced into the animal's head in any number of inventive ways.
