And in San Francisco, a full one-third of the population is of Asian descent.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

"I had made a descent."

我下降“

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Then, in the last book of the Republic, Book X, there is, once again, a descent to the underworld, to the world of Hades.

接着，在《理想国》的最后一部，第，X，部，再度下降到阴间，地狱的世界。

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Other players had a different perspective. Boyd Okwuonu is an American of Nigerian descent.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

The focus of the Nativity Ode isn't even really on the Incarnation that's the theological doctrine of divinity's descent into humanity, how God becomes a mortal.

圣诞清晨歌》的重点不在化身上,也就是神的血统转换成人的这一神学教义，上帝是怎么成为凡人的。

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Garson is among a small group of NFL players of Haitian descent.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

Israel's descent to Egypt sets the stage for the rise of a pharaoh who, the text says, didn't know Joseph and all that he had done for Egypt.

以色列人下埃及也为一个法老的得势打下基础，文中说法老不认识约瑟夫，也不知他为埃及做的一切。

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Upon descent, alarms went off telling the astronauts that the automatic guidance system was steering the lander toward a boulder-strewn crater instead of a relatively flat landing site called the Sea of Tranquility.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

They were the judicial authority basing that on their claim to divine descent on their, certainly, noble descent, and on the fact that the nobility had a monopoly of knowledge about what the traditions of the community are.

他们能成为司法机关,是基于他们所谓的神圣血统,当然,就是贵族血统,同时也基于贵族对于知识的垄断,对所谓传统的解释权的垄断

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We learn shortly afterwards that they have taken this descent to the Piraeus to view a festival, a kind of carnival.

我们稍后得知,他们一起南下皮里亚斯,去观赏一场庆典，类似嘉年华的庆典。

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