计算机能够被当做工具用。英语被用做一种非常有用的工做语言。

The computer can be used as a tool. English is used as a very useful working language.

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一个男人要“达成天命“，他必须要生个儿子，因此女人最后常常被当做工具来宣扬父亲的名字。

In order for a man to 'fulfill his mandate to heaven' he needs to produce a son, and women have always been used as a means to an end in propagating the name of the father.

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You don't represent as your own work the work of anyone else, and you don't use aids to memory other than those permitted by the examiner.

你不能把别人的作业当做自己的交给我,你不能使用任何记忆的工具,除了考官允许的。

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People would invest in buildings solely for tax purposes because you could write off the depreciation on the building, so people were cynically setting up DPPs as tax shelters only.

人们可以仅仅为了避税而投资一幢大楼,因为你可以对大楼计提折旧,注,计提的折旧可以抵扣税前收益从而减少应交税金 所以讽刺的是DPP仅被当做了避税工具

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