音乐演奏结果只是当晚主要活动的陪衬。

The playing of music proved to be incidental to the main business of the evening.

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对他们的主要活动而言，筹集资金是次要的。

Fund-raising is peripheral to their main activities.

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公司越来越渴望把像培训这样的次要活动外包出去。

Companies are increasingly eager to contract out peripheral activities like training.

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If you're borrowing money for a business, you might want to open a store and you'd want to stock your merchandise and your business won't prosper for a couple years.

如果你是为了经营活动贷款,比如要开一家商铺,或者是要进货,或者你的生意在最初几年都要贴钱

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So, I think it's this balance between working very hard and being involved in the greater community, I would say.

所以，一方面要努力学习，一方面要参与大型社会活动，我想，他们需要把握好平衡。

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And just as there are innumerable human activities which require undistorted references if they are to be satisfied, so there are innumerable other human activities not less important which equally require distorted references or, more plainly, fictions.

就像无数的人类活动,需要真实的证据,如果要达到令人满意的效果，无数同等重要的,人类活动,也同样需要失真的参考,说得更明白点，就是需要虚构。

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