It used to be that government officials were all picked by political patronage and they, very often, were incompetent.

过去政府官员,通常都是走后门进来的,他们经常都是不称职的。

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But the one that they do now... I would be there to see when the wrestlers come in, at the back entrance.

但是他们现在做的这种……当摔跤手进来时，我会在后门那里看着。

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He's telling the men to wield forks and knives as well as weapons, and to adopt non-Russian customs, to bring them into Russia.

他叫人们要像熟练挥动武器一样来挥动刀叉,他把那些非俄国的习俗都引了进来,将他们带到了沙俄

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So if you would want to do this condition or this one, you don't want to break those conditions up because you want to let those people in or that family in either way if either of those conditions is true so you can or them together.

所以你想要处理这个条件或这一个，你不想打破这些条件因为你想,让这些人进来或者那个家庭进来,不过怎么样，如果其中任何一个,条件成立，你可以进来或跟他们一起进来。

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Pan Am is a now defunct airline which had at that time They were--They don't call them stewardesses anymore but they're-- the stewardesses would come in and they would smile.

泛美现在已经倒闭了,他们不在称之为女服务员了,但是他们是-,女服务员进来就会微笑。

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