It was the first time that a government had approved a law to preserve and protect land because of its great beauty.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

Yet, at the same time, Aristotle seems to regard education as the preserve of the few.

但亚里士多德似乎，也同时视教育,是少数人的特权。

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And we could not preserve the quality of human life

如果不使用动物做实验，我们就难以保持人类的生活质量，

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Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...

VOA: special.2009.01.19

These qualities, he believes, are the preserve of the few, of a minority capable of sharing in the administration of justice and in the offices of a city.

他相信这些特质，是少数人所特有，他们能共享,正义的运作,与城市中的行政官位。

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We look to the other side of the ocean to learn how a people which has known how to make itself free, knows how to preserve its freedom. " The assassination of Abraham Lincoln touched the imagination of America's writers.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

These sources preserve different traditions on the number and the nature of the plagues, as well as the principal actors in the drama: God, Moses, Aaron.

这些素材都保留了不同的风格,不同瘟疫的数量，内容,关于三个主角，上帝，摩西，主角的描述也不相同。

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Many see Astrix as the ultimate symbol of France and the battle of many French to preserve their culture and way of life.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

I think they have a moral purpose, which is to preserve the livelihoods of the people of the Province of Quebec.

我认为他们都有一个共同道德目标，就是维持魁北克省,居民的生计。

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No.Not my cup of tea,I'm afraid." There is also a view that conventional graveyards help to preserve history and display the spirit of a community.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

As the Lady labors to preserve her virginity, she conjures a menacing but nonetheless sensual image of "airy tongues that syllable men's names."

因为小姐努力地保持她的童贞，她联想到了一个威胁的但感官的画面,飘忽的声音在叫男人的名字“

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One of the pilots in training - identified as Major C to preserve military secrecy - says having the drones in Afghanistan will be invaluable.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

You could try to figure out how to mesh your scientific view of the mind with these humanist values you might want to preserve.

你可以去试试,看如何将科学心理观,与你所想坚持的人文观念相契合

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Both sides in this debate acknowledge the threat of terrorism, but are divided over how to prevent it and how to preserve the country's democratic values.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

You, the intelligentsia of the next generation, will be those that preserve this great treasure of Western culture and it is a great treasure of Western culture.

你们,未来一代的知识分子们,会成为这一西方文化中,灿烂瑰宝的保护者,它确实是西方文化中的灿烂瑰宝

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He helped create the Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis, to preserve the history of the civil rights movement and advance its legacy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

In the case of great philosophers, however, better yet to preserve one's physical presence in order to inspire future generations of thinkers.

但对于伟大的哲学家来说，更好的用处是，保存他的原貌,以激励后世历代的思想者。

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"Now of course the Chinese are beginning to lecture us, about how we need to balance our budget, and preserve the value of the dollar and avoid inflation.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

So it's important to realize the role of ceramics; they need to make storage jars that could be sealed very well and preserve the stuff for a very long time, and indeed, they did that.

从中希腊人意识到陶艺的重要性,他们需要烧制可以密封得很好的,可以用来长久保存食物的陶罐,他们也的确这样做了

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One of the world's largest forests, the Brazilian Amazon, could be worth a lot of extra money under a proposed deal that pays forest landowners to preserve trees.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

Not at all.Aristotle emphasizes the mutable character of natural right in part to preserve the latitude the freedom of action required by the statesmen.

绝对不是！亚里士多德强调,自然权利的易变特质部份,是要保留回旋余地,政治家所需的行动自由。

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After the war, the town fell into disrepair but was rebuilt by billionaire John D.Rockefeller in the early 20th century, to preserve the atmosphere and ideals of 18th century America.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

So there are two components integral and inseparable in the concept of holiness: initial assignment of holy status by God and establishment of rules to preserve that holy status, and secondly, actualization of that holiness by humans through the observance of the commandments and rules that mark that thing off as holy.

因此在神圣这一概念中，有两个组成部分,一个是上帝最初形成的神圣状态,和为了保持这个神圣状态而建立的规则制度，第二个是，人们通过遵守戒律,而将神圣现实化到生活中,将神圣的事物标记出来。

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A credible election is deemed crucial to the reputation of the mission by 42 nations and their 100,000 troops fighting the Taliban insurgency and attempting to preserve Afghanistan's fledgling democracy.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

It's the violence of this horrible act of self-sacrifice, this tragic act of self-sacrifice -- an act of self-sacrifice - intended obviously to preserve the state of virginity -- that grabs our attention and presumably grabbed Milton's.

正是这种可怖的自我牺牲行为的暴力，这种悲剧的自我牺牲--这种明显是,要保护童贞的自我牺牲的行为-,吸引了我们的注意力，大概也吸引了弥尔顿的注意力。

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So one of the potential advantages of this growing joint technique is perhaps the ability to preserve more of those tissues inside the knee, which would hopefully translate into more natural mechanics of the knee."

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

We are all endowed, he says, with a kind of natural right to life and the desire to preserve oneself is not just a biological fact, although it is also that, it is for him a moral right, it is a moral entitlement, every being has a fundamental right to its own life.

他说，我们具有，一种对生活的自然权利,和保护自己的欲望,这不只是一种生理现象，虽然是一种生理现象，对他来说这更是一种道德权利，是一种道德资格，每个人最自己的生活都有这种根本权利。

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"These ideas are probably better seen in some European communities where they have a long tradition of trying to preserve their historical development identity and had,in the past, much more orientation to walking and the use of transit.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

It allows us to preserve the work of art.

记谱法让我们能得以保护艺术成果

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