I think there's a bus at 8 but you'd better call to make certain.

好像8点有一班公共汽车，不过你最好打电话弄清楚。

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Photography did indeed make certain kinds of painting obsolete — the daguerreotype virtually did away with the portrait miniature.

摄影确实使某些种类的绘画过时了——银版照相几乎使微型肖像消失了。

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You'll have to leave soon to make certain of getting there on time.

你得快点出发，好确保准时到达那里。

《牛津词典》

They actually make sure that certain streets get ploughed and other streets do not get ploughed when there is a snowstorm.

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When people study stereotypes they often make certain distinctions between three levels of stereotypes and this is nicely summarized here.

当人们研究刻板印象时,他们通常会区分,三个层次的刻板印象,这里已经清楚地总结起来了。

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Another category of difference would be religious believers versus non-believers, non-members of the community. In some religious traditions, ideas of caste and social location make certain people very different in terms of the understanding of human equality.

另外一类区别在于,信仰者和非信仰者也就是，非宗教团体成员之间，在有些宗教传统中，种姓和社会地位,使一些人显得非常不同,这从他们对人的平等的理解可以看出来。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Make certain that you have given the IRS all the material and information that you have.

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It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes.

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If the president were serious about governing, he'd make certain at least Democrats supported it.

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