Defense Secretary Robert Gates painted a mostly upbeat picture of the situation in Iraq, indicating that it was possible that more U.S.troops could come home sooner than anticipated.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

He has seen every possible situation.

他比较熟悉情况

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

And I think it's possible to see that one of the purposes of this poem is precisely to correct that situation.

我们可以看到他这首诗歌的目的之一,就是去改变现状。

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"Thousands of people gathered around the Siriraj area with the same feeling in our hearts for to humbly ask His Majesty the king to return to the healthy situation as soon as possible,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

The statesmen in the Aristotelian sense is the one who seeks to return as quickly and efficiently as possible to the normal situation.

亚里士多德式的政治家,是一位寻求尽可能快速且有效,回复到正常情势的政治家。

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So we end up with 3 s p 2 hybrid orbitals, so we can think about what would happen here in terms of bonding, and if we think about how to get our bonds as far away as possible from each other, what we're going to have is the trigonal planer situation.

因为现在sp2轨道有1/3的s特征，2/3的p特征，而不是3/4。,我们最后得到3个sp2杂化轨道，我们可以想象,成键时会发生什么，如果我们考虑。

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