EU Finance Commissioner Olli Rehn made the call after a first round of talks with Greek officials amid growing market expectations of a trade-off between new deficit cutting steps and practical EU support for Greek borrowing.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

Content is a function -or let me say practical language, the purpose, in other words, of communicating facts or of communicating at all, which we associate with practical language -is a function of poetic language.

他们认为，内容即是功能,实用语言的目的，就是交流，我们总是把交流和实用语言联系,但其实它也是诗歌语言的功能。

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Ekman actually has a sort of more practical career along with his scientific career.

事实上，艾克曼有更多实质性工作,同他的科学工作一起。

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So there is this story about his Uncle Hoskins who takes his horse and cart with Richard in the back and drives it into the middle of the Mississippi River as a kind of practical joke on Richard.

有个故事是关于他的叔叔Hoskins的,他让理查坐在他的马车后,却连人带车掉到密西西比河里,这被作为了一个理查的真实笑话。

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