Morrell said the review does not mean that the counterinsurgency approach is over, but rather that U.S.officials want to make sure their strategy is right before committing significant numbers of additional troops.

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What does Socrates mean when he says his way of life has been devoted almost exclusively ? to private rather than to public matters?

当苏格拉底说,自己的生活方式,只专注在私人而非公共事务时,是什么意思？

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I don't just mean the fact that people are dying all around us, but I mean rather, you yourself could die at any time.

我不是说,死去的人都在我们周围，而是说，你自己可能随时会去世。

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First, let's talk about malnutrition. Now usually that concept gets used to talk about too little nutrition, but in fact, if you consider mal to mean poor rather than too little, and poor nutrition can really get manifested as under-nutrition, over-nutrition, or just unhealthy eating in general.

我们首先谈谈营养不良,现在我们通常把这个概念视同于缺乏营养,但实际上理解为"不好的",比"不足"更为恰当,一般而言,不好的营养可以被理解为,营养不足,营养过剩,或者仅仅是指不健康的饮食

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I'm asking rather in pointing to the 2010 car stage I mean to be picking out an entire extended through time entity. The car.

而我问的是,指着2010年的车,我指的是整辆,贯穿时间的物体，这辆车。

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Even if we didn't have unpredictability, I mean rather, even if we had unpredictability, it wouldn't necessarily follow that death was pervasive in this way.

即使我们没有不可预知性，我的意思其实是，即使我们有不可预知性，但死也未必会,按照这种方式遍布。

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They mean to be saying rather,even if there are others around you, even if there are others with you,dying is something that you're doing alone.

他们是要说，即使身边有他人的存在，即便身旁有其他人，你还是在孤独中死亡。

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They mean rather the same slowly evolving Here is an analogy.

他们指的是同样的缓慢进化完善的,做个类比。

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