beat-up car

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Hearing this, an old man stood up among the audience and said, "I can understand you quite well, and you know I had a beat-up car like yours."
听到这些话，一位老者从听众里站了起来，说道："我很理解你，当初我也有一部像你那样的破车。"
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My first car, a beat-up old Mustang, was a lemon -- sometimes it felt like I spent more time awaiting roadside assistance than I spent driving it.
我的第一部车是一辆破旧的Mustang，真是够破的，有时候我觉得我花在路边等待援助的时间比我开车的时间还要长。
So I bought a beat-up old car, packed up my belongings, got out a map, and started driving west to Chicago—a place I had never been and where I didn't know a living soul.
于是我买了一辆又破又旧的车，收拾好行李，拿了一张地图，然后开车向西驶向芝加哥——一个我从来没去过也不认识任何活人的地方。
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So then you decide you buy a new computer for your kid going off to college or you finally trade in that old, beat-up car you got, and so businesses then, they have more profits.
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