大法官安东尼·肯尼迪写道，此前的裁决存在缺陷。

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that the previous decisions were flawed.

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她当时告知我们，18位教职员在此前的一年里离开了。

She informed us that eighteen members of the staff had left during the preceding year.

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皮尤研究中心此前的一项分析预测，当今年轻人中可能有多达四分之一的人这辈子都不会结婚。

A previous Pew Research Center analysis projected that as many as one-in-four of today's young adult may never marry.

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So much of the pathos of Satan's fallen condition involves his painful memory of that blissful state in heaven from which he had fallen.

很多撒旦堕落后的悲怆,夹杂了他憾失此前在天堂的幸福生活的,苦痛的回忆。

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The fisherman is also representative of the Irish peasantry to whom Yeats turns in scorn of the urban audience that he had tried to write for in the theater.

渔夫还代表了爱尔兰农民,他们是叶芝的新读众,叶芝此前鄙视并最终抛弃了,他曾尝试为之写作的城市读众。

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The Russian empire is one of those empires that continued, arguably-- not arguably, it was the case-- after the four empires disappeared with World War I.

俄帝国可以说是,那些得以延续的帝国之一,这的确是事实,毕竟此前的四大帝国在一战中相继陨落

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