她很少有什么朋友，总体来看没有发挥她的潜能。

She had few friends, and was generally not functioning up to her potential.

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很遗憾听说你在这次考试中没有发挥自己的能力。

I'm very sorry to hear that you didn't do justice to yourself in this exam.

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电视观众没有发挥主动性。

The television viewer takes no initiative.

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Were Milton not to fight in some way to defend what he takes to be the true church, he would simply not be investing those talents that God had given him.

如果弥尔顿没有以某种方式,来维护他心中真正的教会，他就并没有在发挥上帝给予他的才能。

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So, empathy, caring, sympathy don't kick in, but instead there's the aggression unleashed at somebody and there has to be some level of surprise.

所以移情，关怀，同情没有发挥作用，反而是释放了别人的侵略情绪,还必须在一定程度上出人意料。

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In this respect, he seems to have followed Spenser -- Edmund Spenser, whose Faerie Queeneis in large part a tribute to the sacrament of marriage, although interestingly The Faerie Queene, the great Spenserian poem, never actually manages to feature a marriage between two human beings.

这样看来，他似乎是,秉承了斯宾塞--埃德蒙·斯宾塞，他的作品《仙后》,很大程度上来说是对婚姻圣礼的颂词，尽管有趣的是，《仙后》,这一伟大的斯宾塞体诗歌，从没有真正意义上,在两人的婚姻中发挥重要作用。

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