在一些州，汽油税的收入被用来修建和维护道路。

In some states, revenues from the gasoline tax are used to build and maintain roads.

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这减少了编写和维护模式的工作量，还确保了不会有某个复杂类型被偶然遗漏而不能扩展。

This reduces the effort to write and maintain the schema, as well as ensures that no complex type is accidentally left inextensible.

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额外报酬应被支付以维护员工的利益和防止剥削。

Extra payments should be made to protect the interests of the staff and prevent exploitation.

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And Dew wrote a forceful defense of slavery in the wake of this, which became kind of a seminal text for all future pro-slavery writers.

此后后德夫为维护奴隶制写了一份有力的辩护,这份辩护被所有后来的亲奴主义作家,尊为一部文献

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Although Hobbes is widely taken to be a defender of monarchical absolutism, you will note, in your readings, that he displays a kind of studied neutrality over actually what form the sovereign should take.

尽管霍布斯被广泛地认为是,君主专制主义的维护者，但在阅读中你们会发现，他对国家应当采用何种政体,是保持中立姿态的。

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