But rather than tamping down the backlash, they may only feed it.

但他们可能只会加重而不是缓解这一反应。

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Wuthering Heights rose above this silvery vapour; but our old house was invisible; it rather dips down on the other side.

呼啸山庄耸立在这银色的雾气上面，但是却看不见我们的老房子——那是偏在山的另一面的。

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But with the turn of the millennium, many diseases, such as Alzheimer's and schizophrenia, remained mysterious, and treatments continued to tamp down symptoms rather than address causes.

但是到世纪之交，许多疾病，例如老年痴呆和精神分裂，都依旧保持着神秘的面纱，同时，针对症状而非病因的治疗仍在继续。

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All of the men say they never intended to bring down any planes, but rather they wanted to unleash a series of harmless stunt explosions on famous landmarks here to in their words, "expose the failings of Western foreign policy."

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Second thing we've been doing, I want to highlight for you is, we've along the way, mostly just verbally rather than writing it down, but we've been talking about good style.

我们一直在学的第二件事情是,我想给大家强调下，我们一直在口头上说，而没有把它写下来，但是我们一直在说优秀的风格。

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C. were not necessarily the failures of bad ideas, but rather the failure of a top-down, authoritarian approach that turned off voters and alienated teachers.

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But levelling up the capital requirement, rather than levelling down, has revealed a shortfall in some banks.

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But if the Bank of England does decide to change rates, the direction will be up rather than down.

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