They are so used to getting stuff from the supply sergeant that the clerk had to throw the suits on the floor before these guys would try them on.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

The goal was to stop stuff like this, to try to create a legal framework in which states could resolve their kind of differences without kind of butchering each other.

他这么做的目的就是为了终结这种战乱的状况,并且试图创建一个法律体系,各国可以通过这个体系,而不是相互残杀来解决分歧

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So, investors will have a tendency to try to hide -or people who sell investments will try to channel the good investments to their friends and dump the bad stuff on other people.

所以,投资者倾向于掩盖,或者说是投资产品的销售者会试图,把好的投资产品卖给自己的朋友,而把那些差的留给外人

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The things that they taught us in school, when they required us to remember poetry, no matter how we try, we can't forget it, and the stuff that we had to remember that was in prose, no matter how we try we can't remember it.

我们在学校所学的知识,当以诗歌的形式进行记忆时,不论怎么尝试,我们都很难忘记,但是如果让我们背诵散文,不论怎么尝试,我们都很难记住

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