Najafi was asked by a reporter about reports U.S.special envoy Richard Holbrooke is trying to pressure the Afghan government into holding a second round to alleviate concerns of widespread voter fraud.

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There's something relaxing about that, it takes off the pressure a little bit.

这其中有种轻松感，卸掉了身上的一点压力。

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And we noticed the built in pressure to try to bring into alignment our judgments about particular cases and the principles we would endorse on reflection.

然后我们发现,要在特定案例之下，自圆其说我们的判断,校正我们一再确认的原则，难度越来越大。

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Black Boy We started this course talking about Black Boy - and the way that a whole world of pressure-- pushed on the borders of that work and actually changed its very material form.

在开始这门课的时候我们先讨论了,说了这个充满政治压力的种族矛盾激化的世界-,并且已经改变了,它的实体范畴的。

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