So official versions of history tend to veer away from the truth, not towards it.

因此官方版本的历史往往倾向于回避真相，而非直面历史。

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This is clearly a conciliatory gesture towards his wife, Cherie, who has not seen as much of him as she might have hoped and he admits it.

这显然是对他的妻子切丽的一种和解姿态，切丽并没有像她希望的那样经常见到他，他也承认了这一点。

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When it emerged towards the end of the 1980s as a purely text-based medium, it was seen as a tool to pursue knowledge, not pleasure.

20世纪80年代末，当它作为一种纯文本媒介出现时，它被视为一种追求知识而非快乐的工具。

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I think it's very useful. It may not be immediately apparent to people in Darfur, but in the end it is a contribution towards a solution to their problem."

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

He is at war and he is serving under a commander, and so the behavior of these people towards one another is not precisely like what it would be.

他们乐于战斗并服从命令,这种特殊的主从的关系,和我们所想象的完全不同

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Similarly, the pressure exerted by sunlight, and the force exerted by the emissions from each probe's radio antenna, were dismissed: again, both are too weak, and they would tend to push the probes away from the sun, not towards it.

ECONOMIST: A space oddity

You might expect the religious to accept death as God's will and, while not hurrying towards it, not to seek to prolong their lives using heroic and often traumatic medical procedures.

ECONOMIST: Religion, medicine and death

Not all councils will charge the CIL, but the government expects that they will all move towards it otherwise they will not be asking developers to help them meet the expense of an increase in infrastructure costs in any given area.

BBC: UK Politics