口头之言便捷，但缺乏持久性。

The spoken word is immediate but lacks permanence.

《牛津词典》

他拒绝收回对自己老板的贬抑之言。

He refused to withdraw derogatory remarks made about his boss.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

她讲的是由衷之言。

She spoke with total sincerity.

《牛津词典》

In Stevens, modernity shows us that the truth of religion was always a fiction, a fundamentally poetic construction.

在史蒂文斯的诗里，现代性向我们展示了,宗教的真理不过是虚构之言，是最基本的诗意创作。

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There might be a little more of Nietzsche suggested in that, than Machiavelli, but I think the Machiavellian overtones are very evident.

这之中也许有更多尼采的成份,而非马奇亚维利，但我认为马奇亚维利式的言外之意,是非常明显的。

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Finance usually means the private sector, but the issues are much the same in both cases.

虽然金融通常意味着与私营企业相关，但两者所言之金融,在很大程度上是相同的。

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