He just plonked himself down and turned on the TV.

他一屁股坐下来，打开了电视。

He sat down in the armchair and turned on the radio.

他在扶手椅上坐下来，打开了收音机。

Richard picked up the remote control and turned on the television.

理查德拿起遥控器，打开了电视机。

At one such meeting on Tuesday morning in Pennsylvania, Senator Arlen Spector - a Republican, recently-turned-Democrat came face-to-face with a screaming protester.

VOA : standard.2009.08.11

In other words, the author, the traditional idea of the author -so much under suspicion in the work of Foucault and Barthes in the late sixties--can be turned on its ear.

换言之，有一种传统的看法就是对作者置之不理,六十年代晚期在福柯和巴特的,作品中有那么多疑点。

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One of the things that estrogen does when cells are exposed to estrogen is that certain genes get turned on that weren't turned on in the estrogen-free state.

雌激素的功能是,当细胞所处环境中有雌激素时,一些在雌激素不存在的条件下,无法表达基因就能够表达

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But here in Warsaw, people were waiting for only one thing -an assurance that despite scrapping Bush-era plans for an antiballistic missile shield, the U.S.had not turned its back on Central Europe.

VOA : standard.2009.10.22

Genes are being turned off, genes are being turned on." That's Neurobiologist David Clayton from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the lead researchers in an international team that has sequenced and analyzed the genome of the zebra finch.

VOA : standard.2010.04.05

It's especially gratifying that a front-drive car can be so easily U-turned on a two-lane street.

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Having reneged on their Coalition agreement commitment to vote through the boundary changes, the Lib Dems would look pretty silly if they u-turned on their u-turn.

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It reminds me of another celebrity-turned-political-activist on the far-right fringe: Chuck Norris.

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