雷克特和其他一些人认为，一旦“依赖的习惯被打破”，那么国家就可以做出其他旨在提高生活水平的政策改变。

Rector and others argued that once "the habit of dependency is cracked," then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living standards.

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然而很多时候这些规则细看之下便不再撑得住了。梅里亚姆·韦伯斯特倾向于去引用那些打破了这条或那条“规则”的伟大作家。

But often these rules don't bear up under scrutiny; Merriam-Webster tends to cite great writers who break this or that "rule".

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那里保存着那种奇怪，有翼的喷气式汽车。 福塞特希望驾驶它打破陆地速度记录，尽可能的接近时速800英里。

Just down the road too, in Sparks, was a warehouse containing the strange, finned, tubular car in which he hoped to break the land speed record, travelling as close as he could to 800 miles an hour.

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