The peace institute's report says that the United States has often put its security interests ahead of its desire to see democracy spread throughout the Middle East.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

The dream work simultaneously condenses and displaces that which it is somehow or another struggling to make manifest as its object of desire.

梦运作时，凝缩和移置同时进行,这样一来，梦试图展示愿望的过程,就显得有些纠结了。

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A certain other subsidiary desire is, no doubt, to protect its various other pieces along the way.

而另一个附属欲望,毫无疑问,则是保护它其他的棋子们

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In his first Washington address since assuming NATO leadership last month, Secretary-General Rasmussen said he understands America's desire to see its NATO allies commit more troops and resources to Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Every creature, he says, has a built-in desire to preserve itself, to persevere in its own existence, to continue in its own steady state you might say, and to resist invasion or encroachment by others.

他说，任何一个生物都生而具有,保护自己的本能，保护自己的存在，延续自己稳定的状态，抵抗外界的侵犯。

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A certain subsidiary desire is to protect its king, to capture my king.

而其中的一个附属愿望就是,保护它的王,吃掉我的王

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In the first place, they are young aristocrats, and Glaucon's desire to hear justice praised for its own sake indicates something about his scale of values.

首先，他们是年轻贵族，而，Glaucon，想听到,正义自我礼赞的愿望,点出他的价值格局。

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