He says he has worn it for two days and figures it must be working because he has not come down with the flu.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

In the backdrop, in the background, of that expression, "struggle for science," there are two key figures.

为科学而斗争，这个表达的背景中“,有两个关键的人物。

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And this is where the two most important figures of the Republic begin to make their voices heard.

而这正是《理想国》书中,最重要的两名人物,开始发声的起点。

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As many as 100,000 people may have died in the two wars between Russia and Chechnya since the collapse of the Soviet Union, but exact figures are not known.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

It was undertaken with two primary figures at its head for many, many years.

这项研究是由两大人物牵头,进行了很多很多年

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The figures in the two efforts reveal an anomaly: While Cambodia has succeeded in dramatically cutting the ratio of children who die each year, the maternal mortality figure has not dropped in a decade.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

And he gets it right to two significant figures.

他得出了2个重要的数字。

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There are, of course, dozens of figures taken from the texts of classical mythology who are alluded to throughout the first two books, but invariably they appear, just as Tantalus does in this very passage, within the context of a simile.

当然，这部作品有很多人物是取材自,经典神话故事，他们是用来表达隐喻的,贯穿着前两册书，他们始终出现，就像丹达罗斯在这一诗篇中，给予诗内容一种喻示。

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