In a New York Times article, Sam Boakye—the only black student on his freshman year floor—said that "if you're surrounded by whites, you have something to prove."

在《纽约时报》的一篇文章中，一年级唯一的黑人学生山姆·博阿凯说：“如果你周围都是白人，你就会想要做点事情来证明自己。”

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You should be conservative in descriptions of your success, lest you leave the impression that you are bragging, or have something to prove.

在谈论你的成功时你应当保持矜持，否则的话会给别人留下你在夸口或者你在证明什么的印象。

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This could take some time, and the amount of time it takes to catalogue your material goods might prove once and for all that you have way too much stuff.

列清单那可能需要花费不少的时间，但列清单消耗时间的长短将非常有力地证明你到底有多少多余的材料在填塞着你的空间。

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You might have thought that showed--didn't Descartes prove to us that that shows--the Evening Star and the Morning Star are two different things?

由此你可能会想,这是不是就印证了笛卡尔向我们证明的,昏星和晨星,其实是两样不一样的东西

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That doesn't prove that the argument fails, but it does mean that you're going to have your work cut out for you if you're going to use this route to arguing for the existence of a soul.

但这并不表明这个论证就不成立,而它确实意味着,如果你要用这种途径,来证明灵魂存在的话,你需要有人帮你解答疑团

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But, to succeed in a filing like that, you have to prove that the elderly victim is, at least to a certain degree, incompetent and in need of protection.

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To prove that the debt is worthless, you have to prove that you have taken reasonable steps to collect the debt.

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You can even do some or all of the work yourself if you can prove to the lender that you have the skills.

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