The rebel group failed in its violent quest to establishment an ethnic homeland on the island, which is dominated by the mainly Buddhist Sinhalese.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Fishing is seen here, as in the earlier poem, as an image of quest and an image of desire.

和早期是一样，这里渔夫，代表探索和欲望。

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In "The Song of the Wandering Aengus," I talked about the kind of flickering passion and the fire in the head that sends Angus out on his quest.

在流浪者安古斯之歌里,我讲了促使安古斯追逐的,燃烧的激情和头脑里的火焰。

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Crist was forced to abandon his quest for the Republican Senate nomination because he was badly trailing former state legislator Marco Rubio in the primary race.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

He didn't believe it and in order to disprove the Oracle's statement he says he began a lifelong quest to find someone wiser than himself.

他不相信,且为了加以反驳神谕论述,他说自己开始了一趟终身的找寻,要找出一位比自己聪明的人。

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They find it very interesting." In their quest to win international audiences, Indian film producers are trying to break the mold and explore more contemporary themes.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

We'll see more about that in a minute, in part because of its overwhelming religious influence and that's one reason, besides the quest for a port on the sea, why he builds St. Petersburg.

稍后,我们会再次谈到这一点,他之所以建造圣彼得堡,除了要建立一个出海口这个原因,还因为莫斯科的宗教势力根深蒂固

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Then they would come back later in the day." In the course of his bread quest, Alexander won second place in the New York State Fair bread competition.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

The philosopher seeks to judge those beliefs in the light of true standards in the light of what is always and everywhere true as a quest for knowledge.

哲学家追寻的是以真正的标准,来评判那些信念,鉴于追寻知识,无论在何时何地皆真的标准。

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His in other words seems to be a highly personal in many ways highly individual quest for self perfection and not a doctrine about the value of freedom of speech in general.

换言之，他崇高的个人,从许多层面来看，是他崇高的个人,追求本身完美，而非关一般,言论自由价值的学说。

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