I don't know a word of Russian, and so I actually try to avoid using the rather well-known Russian equivalents for these terms because I feel like an idiot.

我一个俄语单词都不懂，所以我尽量避免用那些相当有名的俄语对等词来表示这些术语，因为我觉得自己像个白痴。

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Rather, they are dark because of interstellar dust that hides the stars behind it.

相反，它们之所以是黑暗的，是因为星际尘埃将恒星隐藏在它的后面。

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Gazda hypothesizes that copying didn't indicate a lack of artistic imagination or skill on the part of Roman artists, but rather the Romans made copies because they admired Greek sculpture.

加兹达假设，复制并不意味着罗马艺术家缺乏艺术想象力或技能，而是因为他们欣赏希腊雕塑。

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It makes sense for people to sing rather than say these words, because the emotions are so huge, the conflicts are so large and so real."

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I don't know a word of Russian, and so I actually try to avoid using the rather well-known Russian equivalents for these terms because I feel like an idiot.

我不懂俄语，所以我不用俄语读,而就用这个英语中通行的俄语替代词,这样感觉是不是挺傻的。

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But I think it's better to come study here rather than stay in Spain just because of the system again.

但我觉得来到这里学习比留在西班牙好，因为这里的体制比较好。

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Working in his favor: Clicker is not seen as a threat the way a Google TV is but rather as an ally for the networks because it navigates rather than hosts the content.

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Swift found that it wasn't the drone campaign that had swelled the ranks of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula but rather because the group was able to offer jobs to desperately poor young men.

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That it's just smarter politics to focus on the whole rather than the specific because you can get more things done.

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