The government recognized there were problems in urban areas but these could never be an excuse for lawless behaviour.

政府认识到市区存在问题，但是这绝不能成为非法行为的借口。

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For more than 200 years, the people of Chioggia near Venice have used the nicknames to distinguish between distantly related families, but they were never officially recognized.

200多年来，有相同姓氏的远亲们一直通过绰号来互相区分，但这从未得到官方认同。

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At the time, we may have resented this intruder-but as we grew older, we recognized that the sweetheart had never been ours to begin with13.

在当时，我们兴许怨恨这位不速之客——但是后来长大了，也就认识到了心上人本来就不属于我们。

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What happens over time is that employees who are not recognized become like well-worn furniture sat upon but never appreciated.

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The company still has a bright future developing chips for the embedded market and storage devices, but they'll probably never again have the opportunity to become an instantly-recognized name like Intel, AMD, or IBM.

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