Malashenko adds that shooting in Chechnya will not stop with the wave of a wand, or with a signature on a piece of paper, but Kadyrov will,nonetheless, try to show Moscow he can keep control of the republic with his own forces.

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The simile isn't telling us that Satan's spear is as small as a wand because what we have is a syllogism here.

这个比喻并不是在提醒我们撒旦的长矛像棍子一样小,因为我们在这儿有一个演绎推理。

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His spear "were but a wand / he walkt with to support uneasy steps."

他的长矛“看来只不过是小棍/他挎着长矛，迈着沉重的步伐，“

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So what she's going to do is start loading up the electrons, and you see this wand here move slowly, and it takes a while to do it, start become perpendicular.

所以她将要加载电子，你们看到这个棒慢慢地移动，这个需要一段时间，开始变得垂直了。

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Satan's spear is to the tallest pine what the tallest pine is to a little, bitty wand.

撒旦的长矛对于最高的松木而言就如同最高的松木,对比一根小小的棍子一般大。

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Think about that. All this, Comus explains : Nay Lady, sit; if I but wave this wand, Your nerves are all chained up in Alabaster, And you a statue; or as Daphne was, Root-bound that fled Apollo.

试想一下，所以这一切，Comus解释到：,小姐，坐，但如果我挥舞这个棒子，你的所有神经都束缚在这个大理岩上了，你是一尊雕像，或像月桂树那样，被绑在根上逃往阿波罗。

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