Opposition Republicans claim more than three million jobs have been lost since the bill's passage, and they say it contributes to the nation's soaring debt.

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In other words, a connotation is valuable and ought to be invoked even if it's philologically incorrect if it contributes to the unity, the complex building up of the unity, of the literary text.

也就是说,如果隐含意义是文本更具有一致性,它就是有价值,且值得探究的，即使从语言学角度说，它是不正确的。

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It contributes to other people.

对他人有帮助。

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So if a food belongs to a class of foods that a class of items that contributes to that internal metabolic havoc, would that be reason to consider it a non-food?

如果某种食物,可以引起机体内代谢紊乱,将它们认定为非食品是否合理呢

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So it was a theme of the period and Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle contributes to this theme. Brooks himself likes to -- refer to the text of Beyond the Pleasure Principle as itself a master plot-- in other words as having a certain fictive character.

所以不难发现，这就是弗洛伊德时期的一大主题,而那本《超越快乐原则》也就响应了这个主题，布鲁克斯,本人很喜欢引用《超越快乐原则》中的片段-,换句话说，就好像有一个虚构的角色。

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It also contributes to others to feel good.

也能让他人感觉好。

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