Nor yet, if you are born original, is there anything in this training that shall clip the wings of your originality.

再说，假如你生而有独创性，这种训练方法也不可能剪断你独创性的翅膀。

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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.

我们必须特别留心一小股自私分子，他们想消减美国这只雄鹰的翅膀来丰实自己的巢穴。

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The new security council, to be run by Mr Allawi and his Iraqiya party may in theory clip Mr Maliki’s military wings. But no one knows how it will operate.

阿拉维和其“世俗伊拉克”党管理的新安全委员会在理论上可能削弱马利基的军事势力。

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Or do we want a system dominated by the government where everyone is at a similar economic level but where we severely clip the wings of people with the spark and drive to achieve by, or instance, jacking up their taxes (and leaving them less to invest in things like building their businesses)?

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They might want to clip the committee's wings by limiting its powers in some way.

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After last summer's reshuffle Downing Street let it be known that Mr Blair's decision in effect to demote the chancellor's (unrelated) friend Nick Brown, from chief whip to agriculture secretary, and to put Mr Byers in the Treasury, was intended to clip the chancellor's wings.

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