when trolls become annoying, the flame wars too fiery, members move on, and pretty soon that happy online forum turns into a ghost town, or worse.
当巨魔成为恼人,激烈争论太急躁,会员离开,不久,快乐的网上论坛就变成了废墟,或者更糟糕。
if you keep on making concessions and let people dump their work on you, pretty soon you’ll become fair game for your colleagues to take advantage of.
要是你不断让步,允许别人把他们的工作推到你身上,不久你的同事们就会把你当成他们经常可以利用的对象。
pretty soon we’ll have some dinner and go to sleep.
很快我们就要吃晚饭和睡觉了。
your only boy is leaving home pretty soon for college, isn't he?
你的独生儿子不久要离开家去上大学了是吗?
pretty soon all the weight that required so much effort to lose is back and the person has to start over again.
很快,花费很大力气才减掉的体重又重新回来了,减肥者又不得不从头再来。
pretty soon afterwards, she threw in the acting life.
不久之后,她就放弃了演艺事业。
she was shrewd and diligent, so business kept coming in, and pretty soon she realized that she needed an in-house counsel.
因为精明和勤奋,她的生意很快就越来越红火了。于是不久,她就意识到她得请一个专门的法律顾问。
her brain is now functioning and pretty soon she’ll be able to hear.
她的大脑已经开始起功用了,不久她就能听到声音了。
three hundred years ago, a french trader turned up to create a safe haven for his fur business; he started making connections and pretty soon detroit was born.