Yet the new South Africa's relations with the world are often confused, almost schizophrenic, as it struggles to understand what it is and what it wants to be.

然而，获得新生的南非与世界的关系常常令人费解，或者说几乎是进退失措，因为它也极力想弄明白自己身处何方，又该何去何从。

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The resulting stream of charged particles, called the polar wind (not to be confused with the planetary wind), accounts for 10 to 15 percent of Earth's hydrogen loss and almost its entire helium leak.

由此形成的带电粒子流，就叫做“极地风”(polar wind)，可占地球氢元素泄漏过程的10 ~ 15%，而几乎所有的氦气就是以这种方式脱离地球的。

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Forgiveness is often confused with absolution, since the terms are used almost interchangeably in most religions.

宽恕经常与免责混淆在一起，因为这两个词在很多场合里经常互用。

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The drama in Washington and other capitals is almost the exact replay of that confused policy debate in Japan.

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In the popular World War II cartoon strip The Sad Sack, the character was a naive, confused, lazy, bumbling private, but happy enough and almost lovable.

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