Lisbon would tilt the balance of power a bit toward Luxembourg, but not as far as its opponents fear.

里斯本条约会将权力的天平向卢森堡稍稍倾斜，但并不像那些反对人士担心的那么严重。

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You do not go out to injure opponents.

你不会刻意去伤害对手。

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These tools can help you win every argument—not in the unhelpful sense of beating your opponents but in the better sense of learning about the issues that divide people.

这些方法可以帮助你赢得每一场争论——不是毫无意义的击败对手，而是更好地了解使人们产生分歧的问题。

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But some historians suggest that the inclusion of opponents may not have been as smart an idea as Lincoln had hoped.

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Opponents of animal testing are quick to point out that it's not a humane way to learn scientific facts.

动物实验的反对者很快就指出，利用这种方法得到科学事实是不人道的。

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In a poker game you do not want to let your opponents know if your cards are good or bad.

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The red, pink, cyan, and orange Pac-Ghosts are not really opponents (in the sense that they are not trying to outplay you or compete toward the same ends).

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And they insist that they want to talk about what they stand for, not their opponents' weaknesses.

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The idea that a President's policies would be stymied not by opponents in the legislative branch or by due process in an independent judiciary but by career bureaucrats nominally working for him in the executive branch was surely not what the Framers had in mind.

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