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that rather than helping build a stable Afghanistan capable of governing itself, what they describe as an escalation of the U.S.presence may actually harm U.S.security.
VOA: standard.2009.03.17
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This is the modern city, not as a scene of fragmentation or despair, but rather a place of ascent and aspiration.
这是一座现代化的城市，并不是破碎或绝望的场景，而是一座在上升的渴望之城。
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Also you can use " It seems" as a statement rather than a question.
你也可以将"It seems"作为陈述句使用，而非疑问句。
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"Yes,a colonial map that made little sense helped to breed conflict, and the West has often approached Africa as a patron and a source of resources, rather than a partner.
VOA: standard.2009.07.11
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In that case, we understand it as a sequence of cross-sections rather than something that somehow organically changes through time.
这样，我们就是在学习一个个语言的横截面,而不是语言自然的变化过程。
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Besson rejects criticism over the closure, saying the zone, known locally as "the jungle", was not a humanitarian camp but rather a hub for human traffickers and a place where people were exploited.
VOA: standard.2009.09.22
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At any rate, the reader must regard it as creative writing rather than simply a record of life."
无论从哪一层面来看，把它当作是极具创想的作品,而不单单是生活的记录“
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"The fight against terrorists and violent extremists has been returned to its right and proper place -no longer defining, indeed,distorting, our entire national security and foreign policy, but rather serving as a vital part of those larger policies,"
VOA: standard.2009.08.06
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Here you've got a magazine that doesn't present itself as attacking anything at all, but rather as what?
你们看到的这份杂志并不是为了抨击什么,那么为什么要创立它？
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At the spring meetings, many development activists will push for the IMF and World Bank to issue funds to poor countries as grants rather than loans, which they say could lead to a second debt crisis in Africa.
VOA: standard.2009.04.20
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Now as it happens--this is a novel--as it happens, our hero looks rather like the other man.
小说中故事就这样发生了，我们的主角和另一个人长得很像。
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"So,we think this is going to create a very dire situation where some of us might think of it as genocide by other means rather than by bullets - killing these people slowly through starvation, disease and lack of sanitation,"
VOA: standard.2009.03.28
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In founding the city, he says, we are not looking to of any one individual or any group but rather to the city as a whole.
在创造城市时，我们不是在找寻,个人或团体的特殊快乐,而是要以城市的整体来看。
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And,so I don't see the refueling as being a favor to the United States but rather a contribution that the Japanese have made that is commensurate with its standing as in the world as the second wealthiest country and one of the great powers,".
VOA: standard.2009.10.20
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And he said,to his credit, "no,without my principles I am just"-- as he put it rather indelicately and cruelly about himself-- "a fat man with a big limp."
令人钦佩的是,他说,"不,如果不守我的原则我就是"--,好像他本来不是那么粗野,那么残酷一样--,"一个大胖瘸子"
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On the y axis here it's the percent of people with these two conditions who have cardiovascular disease--or stroke rather 5%--less than 5% and a little over 5% with the stroke as the outcome.
轴表示患有心血管疾病的人同时患有,或不患有代谢综合征的百分比,就中风来说,分别是小于5%和略大于5%
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Actually, his death came rather suddenly and he was working on a requiem that someone had commissioned from him under rather mysterious circumstances and he began to think of it as his own requiem, and indeed, he didn't actually finish it.
其实,他的死来的比较突然,那时他正在谱写,由一个神秘人物委托的《安魂曲》,而且他开始把它当成了自己的安魂曲,而事实是,他其实并没有完成这部作品
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So you have two rather competing senses of the word "vocation" here, vocation as employment and vocation as a calling, and they're constantly for Milton bleeding into one another, these two senses of the word, and often struggling with one another or competing with one another.
所以现在有两个相互矛盾的“vocation“的含义，一个是工作，一个是神的召唤，弥尔顿经常把它们混淆起来，这个词的两种含义，它们经常,在他的内心挣扎，互相竞争。
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That's all they do all night, but they also are talking and they're talking very well as a matter of fact, and the goal of this conversation is, or of this party rather, Symposium means by the way drinking together.
他们彻夜豪饮,但同时也谈经论道,事实上,他们还讨论得不亦乐乎,这场讨论的目的,或是说这场聚会的目的是,顺便说下,"Symposium"的意思是"一起喝酒"
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Life will become meaningful as a function of your pursuit rather than you're expecting some objective validation because the world is what the traditional, particularlly traditional religions view said it was. Go ahead.
你的生活会因为有所追求而变得有意义,而不是去期待一些客观实在的好处,因为世界就如传统宗教,所定义和限定的那样,你继续说吧。
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That is a rather odd thing to think about, especially when Brooks goes so far as to say that he has a particular desire in mind.
这想起来更奇怪，尤其是当布鲁克斯更加进一步说明,他脑子里有一个明确的愿望。
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He presents himself, in other words, as a human being of unparalleled piety and devotion who will risk life itself rather than quit the post that has been given to him.
他呈现的自我，换句话说，是极度虔诚敬神的人类,甚至压下自己的生命作赌注,也不愿放弃这个天赐的角色。
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It creates as a distance between two points, rather than a straight line, an arabesque.
它加长了两点之间的距离，使它变得非直而曲。
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But for Hobbes, think of this by contrast, art does not so much imitate nature, rather art can create a new kind of nature, an artificial nature, an artificial person, as it were.
但是霍布斯不一样，他认为艺术并不是自然的模仿物，不如说艺术可以创造一种新式的自然，人造的自然，就像人的创造。
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The sovereign, he says, or Leviathan, this great artificial man, the sovereign is something more like what we would call today an office, rather than a person, as when we speak of the executive as an office.
他说，君主，或者“利维坦，这个人造的人，君主更像是,我们今天称之的“职务“，而不是一个人，就像我们说某个职务的执行官一样。
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People are already shaking their heads over me and any immediate God further professional use on my part of the word "God" except as a familiar, healthy American expletive will be taken or rather confirmed as the very worst kind of name dropping and a sure sign that I'm going straight to the dogs.
人们经常对我表示不同意，以及对,我一用那个字“,除非作为熟悉的健康的美式感叹词或咒骂词时,它们会被认为是最差的名字,也肯定是我向那些狗前进的标志。
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He must have had, it is conjectured, a rather ladylike appearance as a young man.
据推测，作为一个年轻男人他一定有一个很女性化的面孔。
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Aristotle's political science presupposes in other words a certain conception of human beings as linguistic animals who are capable not only of living together -so do a range of other species -but rather sharing in the arrangements of rule.
亚里士多德的政治科学,预设一种特定的概念,即人类是能言语的动物,我们不只能生活在一起,像其它很多动物一般,还能共享规范的安排。
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In C,I can exist without being a corpse; or rather,without being alive,as a corpse.
在C阶段，我可以不作为尸体而存在;,准确地说，作为尸体，我是死的。
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