"It's important for many reasons, really,to give the confidence to the ground teams -- all our American GIs as well as our coalition partners on the ground -- that if they do get injured, there's somebody to go get them, whether it's in a benign situation or in the middle of a firefight."

VOA: standard.2010.04.27

What we think of as a career isn't simply the benign product of the gradual development of a certain potential.

我们认为的事业不是简简单单的,某种可能性逐渐发展的良性产物。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Unlimited leverage comes automatically with an option exchange. And derivative trading which made the option exchanges look like a benign event.

期权交易与无限杠杆率是与生俱来的,而且金融衍生品交易使得,期权交易看似有益。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

So, what starts out as a seemingly benign state of nature where everyone is free and yet where there is a law and the law respects people's rights, and those rights are so powerful that they're unalienable.

乍一看自然状态是十分良善的,人人皆自由，但还有自然法,自然法尊重人们的权利，而这些权利是如此强大，它们是不可剥夺的。

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