一个出版者力量往往体现在其为作者提供一个平台的能力，而不是具有把树砍倒来制造纸质印刷品的潜势。

A publisher's power has always been in its ability to provide a platform for the author, not in its ability to chop down trees and create printed paper products.

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霍法的阵营似乎把波普视作威胁，在民间无线电波段称其为“麻烦制造机”。

The Hoffa camp seem to see Ms Pope, whose CB radio handle was “Troublemaker”, as a threat.

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人们常把柏拉图与理想世界——哲学家称其为样板——的存在联系起来。

Plato is often associated with the existence of a perfect world, which philosophers call the Forms.

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I regard the last few weeks as politicians deciding we gotta do something to get this off the table of the agenda to something that has a political demand for it What they did, they could have done worse things, they could have done better things.

在我看来，一直到前几个星期,政治家们才觉得自己该做点什么了,不能继续把这件事束之高阁而迟迟不行动,而应当将其转化为一种政治诉求,至于他们所做的一切，已是既定事实，他们原本或许会做得更糟，但也有可能更好，这个很难讲。

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