It's a common bacterium and most strains of E. Coli are not harmful to people, in fact, they provide us with some beneficial properties.

它是常见菌,且大多数种类的菌株对人类无害,实际上还给了我们颇多裨益

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Stopping growth in tumors can be a very beneficial thing.

阻断肿瘤的生长是一件十分有益的事

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But one argument that can be made is that things things were so terrible and so out of control in the earlier period that the strengthening of the state is something that people saw as beneficial.

然而有这样一个观点,在动荡不定的战争年代,一个极权国家是有利于国家的发展的

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