The press and other sources,he notes, speculated that the sentence could have been seven years or more, so three years is not all that bad.

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This sentence, which by the logic of the argument should be demonstrating to us the importance of bringing bad books to justice, seems to be doing something else.

这个句子，在逻辑上来讲，论点应该是,为我们说明把不好的书审判的重要性，但现在却是其他的效果了。

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What it is doing, that's another bad English sentence, but what it is doing?

它本质上也就是说，对于给定的两个东西，它们是不是指向同一个引用？

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