倘若你们转去丢弃我指示你们的律例诫命，去事奉敬拜别神。

But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them.

youdao

倘若你们和你们的子孙转去不跟从我，不守我指示你们的诫命律例，去事奉敬拜别神。

But if you or your sons turn away from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them.

youdao

我接到指示讲话要简短。

I'm under instructions to keep my speech short.

《牛津词典》

So if I take away the quotation marks, all I have is the word with no indication that it's a concept.

所以如果我拿掉引号，剩下的就只是这个词而不指示一个概念了。

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when I was not behaving exactly as my teacher would have liked,

当我没有完全地按老师的指示做，

反对体罚 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I can give you the form and ask you to rate how attractive you think I am and I can give you the same instruction with a crucial difference "Please wait here.

我给你们这张表格,对我的魅力指数打分,同样的指示，但有一点重要的差别,我对你们说“请在这儿稍等片刻。

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