"We are not always going to be right. And I do not want everybody disappointed if we make a mistake here or there.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

So in fact this is indeed a positive number so we didn't make a mistake in our signs.

因此等式的右边也是正数,两边符号吻合。

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That's a crucial mistake that we make when we first try to come to terms with what Freud means by "the death wish."

如果我们一开始就试图理解弗洛伊德所谓的,“死亡冲动“就犯了大错误了“

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"Make no mistake," "We will close Guantanamo prison which has damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting tool for al-Qaida."

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

I think we can make the mistake, thinking about autobiography, that it's somehow not literary. But in fact it's very literary, and part of what makes it literary is the fact that you have to choose what scenes go into that narrative.

我觉得我们可以犯这个错误，想想自传，从某种程度上说它不是文学，但事实上它很文学,其中一个原因是你选择加入叙述的那些场景。

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