We deliberate with an eye to preservation or change to making something better or to preserve it from becoming worse.

我们商议,以求保守或改变,让事物变好,或保守它不至于变得更坏。

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A little indirect but not so indirect that is difficult to understand. You should use this often.

有一点委婉，但不至于委婉到让人难以理解。应当尽量多使用这种句型。

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First, hopefully your blood clots and so that stops you from dying from loss of blood there, but your body tries to heal this wound that's created.

首先,顺利的话血液会形成凝块,使你不至于流血而死,进而身体尝试着去愈合创口

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Well, they weren't ignorant undergraduates, but beyond that they drank wine, not those barbarian liquids that you drink, and also they mixed that wine with water, so that it shouldn't get them drunk too fast.

他们可不是幼稚的大学生,他们喝的是美酒,而不是你们喝的那种野蛮液体,同时他们也把酒和水兑在一起喝,这样他们就不至于很快醉倒

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Now let me do it a second time to show you that -- I'm saying this poorly.

还不至于如此呢,现在让我再做一次给你们看。

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It's to make sure that my throat doesn't get dry.

为了让我的喉咙不至于太干。

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So,I'm telling you from the beginning, but don't dream and think that somehow the Final's going to be so much different from your regular day-to-day performance, but to give you some reason to live after the Midterm.

所以我在开始告诉你们,但是,不要以为你们的最终成绩,和你们的平时表现,没什么关系,但这能让你们不至于期中的时候就绝望了

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And here's the thing; the idea is to drink as much as you can without passing out and at the end of Plato's Symposium everybody is out, except for Socrates who looks around and says, "oh well no more conversation everybody's asleep."

所以,飨宴的目的是,让你在开怀痛饮的同时,又不至于醉得不省人事,在柏拉图飨宴的最后大家都醉倒了,除了苏格拉底,他看着周围说,"好的,都没话说了,大家都睡着了"

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People who have seen this before, done it before, lived through it, and now you can count on them not to run away, better than you can on a fresh recruit who's never done this before.

有经验,杀过人,亲历过战争的人,往往可以靠得住,不至于临阵脱逃,从没参加过战斗的新兵蛋子一般都不怎么靠谱

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