她曾一度无法控制和操纵事件。

She was unable, for once, to control and manipulate events.

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他无法控制自己敏锐的情感。

He was unable to control his sensibility.

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仍无法确定他是否曾经较强地控制过真正的经济力量。

It is arguable whether he ever had much control over the real economic power.

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I think that these countries are somewhat trying to manage this oil risk but they can't yet get onto the frontier.

我想这些国家或多或少,都试着控制石油风险,但他们根本无法达到有效边界。

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We are bodies in motion, and who cannot help but obey the law or the physics of attraction and repulsion.

我们处在运动状态，这是无法控制的，只有遵循规律,或者引力和斥力的规律。

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So there is this sense in which the story of a developing writer is the story of someone learning even before they learn how to control language fully that language has these capacities.

书要讲给我们的,其实就是有关理查学习的过程,告诉我们语言在还无法很好被控制的时候,就已经有能力改变理查的生活。

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