弗吉尼娅是个完美主义者。她就是无法勉强接受任何平庸的东西。

Virginia was a perfectionist. She was just not prepared to settle for anything mediocre.

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这些参与者似乎无法就农业议题达成共识。

The participants seem unable to find common ground on the issue of agriculture.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

没有人领导，他们就无法组织起来反抗压迫者。

Lacking leadership, they could organize no defence against their oppressors.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned, Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred.

已经成为的宆窿，至今那里依然吞噬沉睡者的呻吟，急促的思想和死亡无法激励的灵魂。

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But before we dismiss Aristotle's account as insufferably inegalitarian and elitist, we have to ask a difficult question, not just of Aristotle, but more importantly of ourselves.

但在我们驳斥亚里士多德的论点之前,即令人无法忍受的不平等及精英者论点，我们必需要问一个艰难的问题，不只是关于亚里士多德，对我们更是重要。

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