Damascus has steadfastly denied the charges. Hilal Kashan, professor of political science at the American University of Beirut, thinks that the Hezbollah-led opposition scored a big victory with the general's release and could win the parliamentary elections because of it:"The opposition is using the release of the 4 senior officers as a moral victory, and says for the past 3 years and 8 months, four officers were jailed for no reason, whatsoever and they are coming hard on the Lebanese legal system and the process the Lebanese government, and they say this is the beginning,"

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A lot of the rigid moral distinctions that the poem has actually been working rather hard to establish are beginning to blur.

很多在诗中严格意义上的道德上的区别已经,变得日趋模糊。

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Parking was hard to get in the beginning because it's kind of a lousy system.

一开始停车位不好找，因为这个系统很差劲。

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Suddenly, the distinctions that the simile works so hard to establish are beginning to erode.

突然，这种比喻竭力想要表现的区别,开始崩塌。

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