Whether academic research actually produces anything that is useful to the practice of business, or even whether it is its job to do so, are questions that can provoke vigorous arguments on campus.

无论学术研究实际上是否对商业实践有益，还是甚至于它们的职责是否确实如此，这些问题都在校园内引起了激烈的争论。

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It means that it can go into any situation where peace is fragile or conflict possible. It can, by the simple use of terror, break the peace and provoke the conflict.

因此，在那些和平局势弱不禁风、危机四伏的地方，他们能无孔不入，利用恐怖手段，轻而易举的摧毁和平、引发斗争。

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The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it.

过去充满了我们的生活，它渴望激怒我们，挑衅并侮辱我们，引诱我们去毁灭和重新描绘它。

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How Mr Miliband and his front bench team will handle that giant - tame it, provoke it or cosy up to it - remains to be seen.

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Does it provoke inflation, or recession, or both?

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His enormous act of terrorism succeeded in the short term, but his delusions prevented him from seeing the obvious fact that he could never bring down the United States or provoke the world to rise up against it.

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