They can easily avoid being friends to our friends, but can hardly avoid being enemies to those with whom we are at variance.

不想和我们的朋友交朋友很容易，但是却难免会与我们的敌人为友。

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I'm sure Ronaldo learned a lot that day because Cole hardly gave him a sniff of the ball but nowadays the winger is allowed the freedom to go anywhere he wants to avoid being tied down by his marker.

我肯定C罗在那天学到了很多，因为科尔几乎让他接不到球，但是现在，这位边锋得到充分的自由，他可以去任何他想去的地方，这也让他躲开盯防者。

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It sees that the greatest obstacle on one's way forward may not be a high mountain or a deep valley but a grain of sand that is hardly visible. 4to avoid blame on a minor fault one may tell a lie.

看来，有时阻挠我们前进的不是高山、深渊，而是极细小的一粒沙子。 为了避免因一次轻微的过失遭指责，我们便编出谎言来掩盖。

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That's hardly an argument to avoid rebalancing, but it's not much of one for doing it often, either.

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