The old man sat up in bed, crying out "Who's there?"

VOA: special.2009.05.16

He's a man up in the air you know he's so detached he doesn't have his feet on the ground.

他是个生活在空中的人,十足超然,从不脚踏实地。

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It's my son, Zachary, my younger son, dressed up as Spider-Man, but it is Halloween.

是我儿子,扎卡里,我的小儿子,扮成蜘蛛侠的样子,不过这是在万圣节

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The group in Yemen, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, is believed to have ties with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S.passenger jet on December 25.

VOA: standard.2010.01.07

Aristotle, who was increasingly being embraced by civic republicans in England of his time had been brought up, according to Hobbes, on Aristotle's teaching that man is by nature a political animal.

在霍布斯成长的年代里,亚里士多德受到英国共和派,日益增长的拥护，在霍布斯看来，亚里士多德教导人们,人类本性上是政治性的动物。

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Well,easy to imagine the fan of this view coming back yet again and saying, Although it's true that our hero takes the place of the other man on the guillotine, what ends up happening,of course,is that our hero dies his own death.

很容易想象这种观点的支持者会反驳说，虽然的确我们的主角是代替了别人上断头台，但结果还是他独自经历死亡。

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