He said the Union of states was permanent -- that the men who built the Union did not do so only for themselves, but for all future Americans.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

So one thing you will quickly note is that there are no permanent answers in a study of political philosophy.

有一件你们会马上注意到的事,就是没有永恒的答案,可用以研究政治哲学。

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So that really outweighs the fact of not having a permanent place to stay, yeah.

这些比没有固定的地方呆着要更重要。

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He told them it is critical to continue the effort to transfer skills and tools to Afghans so foreigners do not need to have a permanent presence there.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

So this might be a longer lasting, more permanent form of elimination of expression of a particular gene.

所以这似乎是一种持续时间更长,更长久地阻止某个特定基因表达的方法

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So the proposal that death is a matter of permanent cessation of P-functioning versus temporary, that doesn't seem like it's going to do the trick.

所以说死亡只永久地,停止人格功能性的这个说法，也不是正确的。

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Whatever the proposal is on by anybody, Obama, Clinton or McCain I think it should be consistent And so the question is that ? should you make the tax cuts permanent?

任何提案，不管是谁制定的，奥巴马也好，克林顿或者麦凯恩也罢,我认为都应当坚持实施下去,明确了这一点，那么现在的问题是,减税政策到底是否应该长期实施？

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Rather the great works provide us so to speak with a repository of fundamental or permanent questions that political scientists still continue to rely on in their work.

而不是靠巨著来回答,这么来说吧，大量基本或永恒的问题,同时也是政治科学家,仍持续在其著作中所倚赖的根本。

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You are saying that's one of the things that would've been better if... And making it permanent. -Right And that's the very good sort of bang for buck, permanent tax change So you both view this actually as a missed opportunity, at best really, right? -Yeah It's the best it can be said for. Alright.

你的意思是，有些事原本可以做得更好,这个是其中之一，对吗。,关键在于任何措施都必须是长期的，-没错,恒定的税率改制，绝对划算,这么说，你们两位都认为,这充其量只是错失良机而已，对吗，-没错,也只能这么说说了，是吧。

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