The trust, which has 2.3 million members, has been characterized as a sleeping giant of the environment movement.

这个拥有 230 万会员的信托基金会被描述为环保运动的一头睡狮。

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Every few hundred years, a sleeping giant in southern Italy awakens with a bang…

在意大利南部，每隔几百年，一个沉睡的巨人就会醒来，发出轰然的响声…

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Karl believes the Nuggets rousted a sleeping giant. And they didn't do it with a nudge.

卡尔相信是掘金唤醒了一个沉睡的巨人——而他们并未使用暗肘。

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"This is about the systematic dismantling of this country. You have awakened a sleeping giant.

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Will they succeed in waking a sleeping giant of a market, or will they become Marlins North?

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Tammi Kromenaker, the clinic's director, called the legislation "extreme and unconstitutional" and said Dalrymple "awoke a sleeping giant" by approving it.

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Most of its woes are what follow from waking a sleeping giant.

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