Words could get no action to change things.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

In other words, we no longer say, "How does the author exert autonomous will with respect to the subject matter being expressed?"

换言之，我们不会再说，“作者是如何在尊重所要表达的主题的前提下,把独立的意愿加进去的？“

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We no longer appeal, in other words, to the authority of the author as the source of the meaning that we find in the text.

换言之，我们也不会再诉求作者的权威,把它作为我们在原文中找到的原意。

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"We stand by the words that Burma no longer belongs to the international community."

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

If you were to just talk into an oscilloscope that measured your sound vibrations, there are no pauses between the words.

如果你对着,测量声震的示波器讲话,你会发现在单词间并没有停顿

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There were no new pronouncements of policy. Instead,there were words meant to inspire.

VOA: standard.2009.05.14

Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it -- in other words, no outside, no independent standard -- then, that is the more desirable pleasure."

这两种快乐中，如果所有或几乎所有,两种都体验过的人，都更偏好其中一种，而且并不是出于任何道德责任-,换句话说，没有外界的，独立的标准影响-,那么该快乐就是更令人满意的“

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(RECORDING) Erekat said President Abbas will tell Mitchell that if the United States does not succeed in convincing Israel to stop the settlement expansion, it will - in Erekat's words mean that no one in the Arab world will believe that Mr.Obama can ultimately convince Israel to end its occupation of the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

In other words, there is no nature unless you have culture to think it.

换言之，只有用文明来思考它，才有自然这个概念。

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