It stabilizes my identity, which is its intention, but at the same time it betrays my anxiety about my identity in that I must perpetually repeat it to keep it going.

这也是目的所在，但是同时也暴露了，我对自己身份的焦虑，因为我必须不断重复行为来维持身份。

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He said that this would be an invasion of privacy, but the foreign media see it is part of a pattern that betrays a dislike of a free press.

而外国媒体则称，他们的做法正体现了媒体自由。

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Discourse role switching is a pragmatic stratagem in that it betrays the participant's intention.

话语角色转换是一种语用策略，它透漏出交际者的内在意图。

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The Palestinian diaspora has always been deeply sceptical of the Oslo peace process, believing that it betrays their profoundest hopes.

ECONOMIST: For Palestine, bring in Solomon

He said that this would be an invasion of privacy, but the foreign media see it is part of a pattern that betrays a dislike of a free press.

ECONOMIST: Silvio Berlusconi and the press

But it betrays an independence of mind that has scandalised the party's hierarchy.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot