He raised his arms in a gesture of supplication.

他举起双手，做出祈求的姿势。

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He smiled, and made a gesture intended to placate me.

他微笑了一下，做了一个意在安抚我的手势。

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They sent some flowers as a gesture of sympathy.

他们送了一些花表示慰问。

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U.S.President Barack Obama eased restrictions on travel and money transfers to Cuba by Cuban Americans last month in a gesture to its Communist rulers.

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From where we sit, it looks like the Corinthians were making a gesture of solidarity, the kind of thing you would expect a mother city to do, not to ignore its apoikia when it was in trouble.

在我们看来,科林斯人似乎做出了友好团结之态,这是我们期望母邦会做的,没有对困境中的迁徙地置之不顾

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So every gesture of the hand is going to be the equivalent of a quarter note.

那么,每个手部的动作,都相当于一个四分音符

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Nobody knows if this is a gesture of gratitude or of passing on the baton.

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One interesting application the patent highlights is video annotation and editing via a gesture-based toolbar.

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Third, Israel must make a gesture to the Palestinians to show them we want peace.

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