You human beings feel more comfortable interacting with your own kind. If I didn't wear a suit, it would defeat the purpose.

你们人类在和同类交流时会感到更舒服。如果我不穿防护服的话，就没有这样的感觉了。

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By itself, each would be inadequate. Together, however, they offer enough protection-and have the advantage that it is much harder for a disease to defeat four or five separate defences than just one.

每个单独防御本身是不够的，但是合在一起，它们就能提供足够的保护——并且还有这样的优点：对病害来说，突破四至五层防御比一层要困难的多。

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The choice of Lady Chatterley as a test-case was inept, but it suited the anti-intellectual temper of the legal establishment and it would mean the defeat of an impeccably liberal cause.

将《查泰莱夫人的情人》作为案例是不适当的，但它恰恰体现了的立法的反知识分子的性情，这意味着一个无可挑剔地自由事业的失败。

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By the autumn of eighteen sixty-four, it appeared that the North would defeat the South in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

But then, President Taylor made it clear that he would do everything he could to defeat it.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

He said that even if he were to become an independent, he would not caucus with the Democrats because it would defeat the purpose of being an independent.

CNN: McCain, Daschle to meet this weekend

Almost no details of what areas the government wanted covered by the certificate had been disclosed, and if material suggesting the Russian state was behind the killing was withheld it would defeat the purpose of the inquest.

BBC: Litvinenko inquest: UK, Russia 'conspiring for trade'

It would mean defeat in the Euro-elections in June 1999.

ECONOMIST: Riding high