We should try to understand things in nature and not destroy them.

我们应该努力了解大自然的生灵而不是摧毁他们。

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Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them.

但他有怜悯，赦免他们的罪孽，不灭绝他们。

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I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

必使他们略得拯救，我不藉著示撒的手将我的怒气倒在耶路撒冷。

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Gerhard Schrder rode to office promising to increase jobs, not destroy them.

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They'll put people off from investing here and help to destroy jobs not create them.

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The Republicans are like the Bolshiviks in that it is their goal is not defeat their enemies but destroy them.

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