She was in what was described as a vegetative state.

她处于一种被称为植物人的状态。

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From this perspective of relative rather than absolute supremacy, a superpower's strength lies as much in what it can prevent from happening as in what it can achieve.

从相对霸权而非绝对霸权的角度看，一个超级大国能阻止什么发生的力量同取得成绩的力量一样大，另一方面同样也在于它能阻止什么。

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He drinks what is left in his glass as if it were water.

他把杯子里所剩下的全部喝光，好像那是水一样。

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Over the years,researchers have identified several substances in the blood that can serve as what they call cardiac biomarkers.

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And in it you really talk about what it is to grow up as a Muslim in suburban America.

在这本书中，您讲到了,作为一位穆斯林，在美国市郊成长的经历。

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And do that as a way of finding what's true about yourself; do it in the company of others.

并且，当是去，寻找自己的真知;,与其他人一起。

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Oliver Wendell Holmes said, the great thing in the world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you're moving.

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But at the press conference on May 13th to launch the latest edition, there was as much interest in the prospects for the report itself as in what it had to say about the prospects for inflation.

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And that has helped cushion some of the tough stuff that happened in the first six months of this year, including the effects on oil prices as a consequence of what happened in the Middle East as well as what happened in Japan.

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