Now it was not just any old cake. It came in the round cake pans, and I baked it, but then I attempted to cut out a heart and used pink icing and decorated it.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Nonetheless, the fact that he attempted to be a poet, I think, is important here.

尽管如此，他想做一个诗人这个事实，我认为是很重要的。

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And as you'll see by your handout, I've attempted tend to trace it.

你们可以看看课堂材料，我尝试着去找，了找它的起源，我能找到。

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There's a couple of ways I've attempted to quantify that.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

But within all of these groups is an attempted try to get down something that's so fundamental, and we just have to safeguard. I'm thinking broadly in terms of social justice criteria, others may say human dignity. There're certain things we do to safeguard others' human dignity.

但在所有这些群体中都有一种努力,在尝试着记录下最根本的东西，而我们要做的就是维护，我在广泛思考着,社会正义的标准，其他人可能会说是人的尊严，有些事情,我们会做从而维护他人的尊严。

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And its opposition seems to me to be all together noble for know well men of Athens if I had long ago attempted to be politically active I would long ago have perished and I would benefited neither you nor myself. Now do not be vexed with me when I speak the truth.

而这样的违背在我看起来很高尚,因为可以彻底了解雅典人,如果很早之前,就试图活跃于政治的话,我早就没命了,也就无法造福你们或我自己,不要因为我说出真相而恼火。

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