Why would they change suppliers at such a critical time?

在这种关键时刻，他们为什么要改换供货商？

Technologies like directional drilling, where no longer we can just drill straight down, but instead we can actually turn and steer drill bits to reach very precise and specific locations in the subsurface, miles underground.

像导向钻掘这种技术，当我们无法直直向下钻掘时，我们可以改换成转动并控制钻头，非常精确地到达地下数英里的确切位置。

Castles were burned, laws were changed, and the rich and powerful nobles died —their heads cut off by that terrible new machine of death, the Guillotine.

城堡被烧掉，法律被改换，那些有钱有势的贵族死了：他们的脑袋被那可怕的新死亡机器---断头台给砍掉了。

They admit that switching to Polixate would decrease your people's quality of life.

他们承认改换为“钋”会降低人们的生活质量。

The program buys back worn jeans to repurpose and resell them.

该项目回购旧牛仔裤来改换其用途，将其转售。

" Guaranteed ten-second pimple vanisher, " said Fred. " Excellent on everything from boils to blackheads, but don't change the subject. Are you or are you not currently going out with a boy called Dean Thomas? "

“十秒消除脓疱特灵，”弗雷德说，“对疖子和黑头粉刺什么的都有奇，但是你别改换话题呀。你目前是不是正跟叫迪安·托马斯的男孩谈恋爱？”

As the Saudi government tried to remake its image, it carefully tracked how some of its more controversial decisions were received, and how the country's most influential citizens online shaped those perceptions.

试图改换自己形象的沙特政府仔细地追查人们对他们争议较大的决定的反应，以及最有影响力的沙特公民在网上对大家的看法的影响。

He moved and she jerked again. Her sore foot, forgotten in the excitement, now gave a tremendous throb that made her grit her teeth and shift her weight to the heel.

那尸体果然移动了，但又突然停下来，原来在兴奋时她把那只肿痛的脚全给忘了，如今却阵剧痛袭来，使她不得不改换姿势，把重心放在脚后跟上，咬着牙步步挪动。

If you repurpose something, you find a new use for it – a use other than what was originally intended.

如果你改换某物的用途，你会发现它的新用途——最初打算的用途不同。

Lately LulzSec has changed tack, branding itself a champion of the oppressed, perhaps to shake off accusations of political indifference and sadism.

最近LulzSec改换了策略，给自己定位为打压受害者，或许是想要摆脱政治冷漠和施虐的帽子。

Some members of the international track and field community are concerned about how easy it is for athletes to change countries.

国际田径协会的人员担心运动员改换国籍太过容易。

'Anyhow he gives large parties, ' said Jordan, changing the subject with an urbane distaste for the concrete.

" 不管怎样，他举行大型宴会" ，乔丹像般城里人样不屑于谈具体细节，所以改换了话题。

Those we turned off after the Neptune encounter in order to repurpose the memory for the interstellar mission.

我们在航天器与海王星相遇后就关闭了这些仪器，以便改换星际任务。

The 90-year-old says she switched parties two years ago, hoping a Republican could boost U.S. military might.

但90岁的她在2年前改换门庭, 希望有位共和党人能促进美国的军事力量。

She changed the conversation as though it were a matter to which she attached no importance.

她改换了话题，好象刚才说的是件无关紧要的小事。

So she swung rapidly to a different attack.

所以她便迅改换了划攻的方式。

Strickland was indifferent to his surroundings, and he had lived in the other's studio without thinking of altering a thing.

思特里克兰德对环境漠不关心，他在别人的这间画室住着的时候从来没有想到把什么东西改换位置。

They were openly talking about changing the rules at the Republican National Convention.

他们公开谈论在共和党全国大会上改换规则。

So, she had two choices, what she could do is just repeat the word, or choice number two, she could try and change it to something that she wasn't 100% sure about, and that probably would have been a mistake.

所以，她有两选择， 是直接重复那词，或者第二选择， 她可以试着改换成些她不是100%确定的词，那样可能会出错。

After the Revolution he had changed sides and now worked for the very people he had spied on before! He was in a dangerous position and he knew it.

革命后他改换了立场， 现在为他之前监视的人力！ 他处于危险的位置， 这点他很清楚。