For her, books were as necessary to life as bread.

对她来说，书就像面包一样是生活的必需。

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The organizers hope to raise as much as $6M for charity.

组织者们希望筹集到多达6百万美元的慈善款。

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The only hope for underdeveloped countries is to become, as far as possible, self-reliant.

欠发达国家的惟一指望就是尽可能地做到自力更生。

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Yet France may raise the age limit for beer and wine sales to eighteen, the same as for hard liquor there.

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She's making a strong a claim as is possible to make for her potential for rhetorical power.

她提出一个强有力的要求,因为这可能有助于她掌握话语权的潜力。

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So I look to myself and look at the past and see it as the motivation for me to move on.

所以，我看着自己，回顾过往，把过去当做自己前进的动力。

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These days, there is as much of a chance for an offering to be shelved as there is for it to come to market as scheduled: Sixty-five deals are currently backlogged, while 74 have come to market in 2012, according to Dealogic.

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She knew that every relief-bringing puff of Albuterol brought with it an unrelenting jitteriness that was as painful for her to watch as it was for Davis to endure.

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It is not hard to see a lobby from nations squabbling as to who would be the most worthy to be well placed as a priority for such investment and there would be spats as to would have to pay the costs as one nations work force sat idle, waiting for the other(s) to complete their work.

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