There are worse things for a prime minister to end up as than the right kind of loser.

与让这位首相一败涂地相比，这是个更糟糕的结局。

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She was more famous as a writer than as a singer.

她作为作家比作为歌手名声要大。

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He is seen as more business-minded than his predecessor.

人们认为比起他的前任来，他更有经济头脑。

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What better way is there to sell a car than to say it is as fast as a wildcat.

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In that case, we understand it as a sequence of cross-sections rather than something that somehow organically changes through time.

这样，我们就是在学习一个个语言的横截面,而不是语言自然的变化过程。

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I think he's perhaps a bit more sort of respected here as a chef than Jamie Oliver.

我想，作为厨师，他在这里比杰米•奥利弗更受尊重。

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Maung Aye, who is regarded as Than Shwe's heir apparent, was to officiate at the ceremony and I had hoped I might meet him and arrange an interview.

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Since the Industrial Revolution, the only way a company could scale up in productivity and profit was by treating customers as populations rather than as individuals and by treating employees as positions on an organization chart rather than as unique sources of talent and ideas.

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Accountants may, however, have more significance for lawyers as competition than as a business model.

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