But any attempt to send more men or supplies would be seen as an act of war civil war.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

The city and soul analogy could be seen then as an attempt to understand how societies reproduce themselves, and how they shape citizens who again in turn shape the societies in which they inhabit.

城市与灵魂的比拟,可以视为是尝试了解,社会如何自我复制，及形塑公民,后者相对地,也在形塑他们所居住的社会。

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By extension we have our attempt as readers to arrive at an understanding of the first two books in general.

延伸开来，我们作为作者，试图,达成对这两卷书的大体上的理解。

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South Korea,Japan, and the United States view the planned launch 1 as an unacceptable attempt to advance the North's ballistic missile program.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

The English Revolution came about, in large part, because of King Charles' attempt to impose an alien religious conformity, as well as tighter political control on his kingdom.

接下来就是英国革命爆发,这主要是因为,查尔斯国王的努力,他施行异教统一制,同时在国内施行更加严厉的政治统治

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As the criminal investigation got underway, there were many more questions than answers regarding the attempt to bring down an Amsterdam to Detroit airliner on Christmas Day.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

I think what's going on in the harmony, the suggestion that we should think the mind like harmony as though the harmony of the body, is an early attempt to state the physicalist view.

推断精神像是，我们肉体的和声,展现了，对物理学家的观点的早期尝试。

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But hours after Mr.Karzai's speech Friday, the governor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province survived an assassination attempt when a bomb targeting his convoy exploded as he headed to prayers for the Eid holiday.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

Plato's dialogues, the Apology as well as the Republic and the Crito are in the broadest sense of the term, an attempt not only to answer the charge against Aristophanes but also defend the cause of philosophy as something of value and merit.

柏拉图的语录《苏格拉底自辩篇》,《理想国》和《克里托篇》,以最广泛的解释看来，不仅试图响应,亚里斯多芬尼斯的控诉,同时还捍卫着,哲学的目标是价值与功绩。

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