They began innocuously: "Would you like to be famous?"

他们开始是无伤大雅的：“你想出名吗？”

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The piece starts out innocuously enough, with an almost sultry little snake dance.

乐曲的开始并不激烈，略带一点妖娆的印第安蛇舞的韵味。

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I'm assuming this is the natural progression of a trend that began innocuously enough as a revival in smart patent bags, shoes and what used to be called "small leather goods".

我想这也是一种潮流的自然演变过程，首先从小件的精干、漂亮手袋、鞋和过去称作“小件皮制品”开始，以一种无伤大雅的方式重新出现。

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It seems to be presented entirely innocuously, no one in the dialogue objects to it, yet everything else follows from this idea that the city, the polis, is in the central respect like an individual, like the soul of an individual.

这似乎看起来完全无关紧要，所以对话中的每一个人都不反对，但之后所有的事都慢慢浮现,就从这个概念开始,城市、城邦，重视的核心与个人相同，也像个人的灵魂。

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One of them combines painting and collage to create innocuously pretty abstractions that would make attractive wrapping paper.

FORBES: Costco Is Now Selling Matisse. Why Not Take On Gagosian Gallery?

Mr Sharif's friends manage to make the amendment sound innocuously progressive.

ECONOMIST: The crumbling of Pakistan

It all started innocuously as a dispute over who was to blame for banning two non-governmental organisations from attending an Afghan aid conference held in Tokyo in January.

ECONOMIST: More trouble at the foreign ministry