Over a thundering drum section and anarchic screech of a cuica, the singer praised Pitanguy for “awakening the self-esteem in each ego” with a “scalpel guided by heaven.

一阵雷鸣般的鼓声和 锯加鼓的尖声刺耳过后，一个歌者歌颂皮坦基用“上帝引导的手术刀”“唤醒了每个自我的自尊”。

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For the past three years, I have served as a private secretary to Mr. Tang whom you know well, and whose public works have been praised all over Hong Kong.

在过去三年，本人一直担任唐先生的秘书。对于唐先生，阁下必定知悉，唐先生的事业早已为市民所赞赏。

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South Korea is often praised for the speed and forcefulness with which it took over failing banks and bought up bad loans following its financial crisis in 1997-98.

南韩经常因其在97-98年后金融危机后，接管倒闭银行与购进坏账的迅速与强力而受到赞扬。

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There are the Buffalo wings and the over-praised commercials, and this year there is a halftime Madonna concert, followed by a loud 20-minute discussion among friends as to whether a halftime Madonna concert was good idea.

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Indeed, one frequent criticism of the Kosovars, and of their intellectuals, is that, especially last year, they hugely over-estimated the strength of the Kosovo Liberation Army, praised it to the skies (in newspapers such as Koha Ditore, among others) and puffed it up when it was nowhere near ready to take on the Serbs.

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And Mr Bush himself has praised the Europeans' painstaking negotiations with Iran over its uranium-enrichment programme.

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