The job of the executive summary is to sell, not to describe.

工作的执行摘要是出售，而不是来形容。

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This approach is not to describe what he did or how to do it, but to understand his attitude towards the task.

这个方法不是要描述他做了什么或者如何去做，而是要理解他在面临任务时所采取的态度。 。

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Their purpose is to aid in assigning responsibilities to objects and not to describe in great detail every aspect of a complex process.

它们的目的是帮助向对象分配职责，不是用于十分详细地介绍复杂过程的每个方面的。

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But beans are used to describe something of very little value in the expression, not worth a hill of beans.

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Not only did we figure out a way to describe how we quantify it, but we've also quantified how we tell the difference between covalent and ionic, and percent ionic character.

我们不仅想出了一个办法来描述,我们如何定量它，而且我们也定义,我们如何分辨共价性和离子性，以及离子百分数。

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I don't--I could describe you and start to think about you not as a person and language can be used for this.

我可以把你描述成，或想象成,不是一个人，而我可以利用语言做到这点。

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Though Mr. Bronfman speaks eloquently about the scores he plays, he prefers not to describe them.

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But anyway, the main lesson from this exchange is that the purpose of terms like "African-American" is not to describe but to exclude.

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Saying a nuclear bomb went off in my family would not begin to describe what happened.

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