One of her fists was being clenched tightly as if by so doing she could squeeze her question clear out for the boy.

那女生，急得满脸通红，一手用力地攥拳，好像这样一攥，就能把自己的话给清楚地挤出来。

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Death rates may not have been so dire if the reefs were not overstressed by other things humans are doing — again, we'll never know.

我们又一次永远也不知道如果没有人类的过度活动，珊瑚礁是不是还会有这样惊人的死亡率。

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By doing so, the requester is asking if the service has any pending messages for delivery.

通过这样做，实际上是请求方在询问服务是否有任何未决消息需要交付。

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"If we are to defeat this vicious insurgency and by doing so make Britain and the world a safer place, then we must persist with our operations in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

It is permissible to work as a judge in an infidel nation or a nation which rules by infidel law, even if that leads to ruling by their law, if by so doing one is able to increase the good and decrease the bad as much as possible.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Under what circumstances will the American people be willing to engage on behalf of their own interests (let alone distant allies') overseas if, by so doing, they invite mega-Pearl Harbor attacks against their families and communities at home, from even Third World countries?

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Pearl Harbor, All Over Again

But many Indonesians might be persuaded to pay, if by doing so they could get the armed forces out of politics.

ECONOMIST: Indonesia