"They are doing that because he is popular with their own people,which means that they get some reflected glory at home, and that is where you get (political) leverage, because this is an American leader who can speak over the heads of the domestic leaders, and that is powerful,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

We understand irony only, he means, to the extent to which we are in agreement with the other person.

他的意思是,我们只能在赞同对方观点的程度上,理解讽刺。

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Or Augustus--he had taken the title Augustus by this time, which means "the great"--he himself said, "I transferred the Republic from my power to the dominion of the Senate and the people of Rome."

或者奥古斯都。。。当时他已经使用了这个头衔，意思是“尊崇“，他说，“我已将共和国重还给,元老院及罗马人民统治“

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In other words, what is there--which is a kind of way of talking really has to do with what Gadamer means when he talks also about die Sache, the subject matter.

换句话说，存在,确实和伽达默尔所说的,事情本身有联系。

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There's no story by means of which he emerges from some other realm.

也没有故事说明他是来自于异国。

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The sovereign is described by Hobbes as an artificial person by which he means the sovereign is the creation of the contract or the covenant that brought this office into being.

霍布斯把君主描述为一个,现今意义上的法人,也就是说君主的权力,是由某种意义上的合同,或说是契约而形成的。

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He seems to have had some work as the state licenser, but also more importantly as the nation's Latin secretary, which means that he would compose and translate all of England's correspondence with the governments on the continent into and from Latin.

他作为国家执照签发人似乎真做了一些工作，但更重要的是,弥尔顿还担任了国家拉丁语文书，也就是说他要,把英格兰大陆上政府的所有通信,编译成拉丁文或者从拉丁文编译成英语。

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