We believe it is quite inconvenient for the region to devote such significant economic resources to purchasing arms.

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He made it relatively easy for me to set the priorities, as to where we devote the time, who gets in and who doesn't.

但总统让我相对容易地,设定首要任务，让我知道把事件分配到哪，谁要会见，谁不要。

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For birds and mammals, we don't have many kids but so we devote a huge amount of psychological energy to protecting the ones that we have.

鸟类和哺乳类，没有很多孩子,所以我们用大量的心力,去保护我们有的孩子。

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