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Even without the kicker the brew is impure.
即使没有烈酒，酿酒也是不纯的。
If he (the goalkeeper) can make himself more threatening, he can distract the kicker even more.
如果他（守门员）能使自己变得更危险，他可以更让射手分心。
The real kicker is that by design, UTF-8 is a much more robust and easily interpretable format than any other text encoding designed before or since.
真正的优势在于设计，与以前和以后设计的其他任何文本编码相比，UTF-8 是一种更健壮、更容易解释的格式。

It was something that we had seen and practiced all week. The key was the kicker.
Somebody else owned them, and discovered them, and demanded that they get paid, and ended up negotiating with the company, and we got a kicker.
其他人买了这些债券，发现了这个问题，然后要求偿付，到最后以和公司协商了事，然后我们得到了一个促销品。
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So the mad scientist explains all of this to you, but in order to give it a little kicker, because he's also an evil mad scientist-- that may be evil already,but because he's an evil mad scientist-- he says,And then when I'm done-- So over here we've got Shelly's body but Linda's personality.
于是疯狂科学家向你解释这一切，但为了增加一点戏剧性，因为他同时是个邪恶的疯狂科学家-,因为他是既邪恶又疯狂的科学家-,他说，当我完成之后…,这是Shelly的肉体和Linda的人格。
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Rents with a percentage kicker, common in franchise operations, may be more affordable to a startup.
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(SPORT) someone who kicks, especially a player in an American football team whose job is to kick the ball
(SURPRISE) something surprising

In sports such as American football and rugby, the kicker is a player whose role includes kicking the ball.