Their commitments do not permit them to immerse themselves in current affairs as fully as they might wish.

他们的职责不允许他们如其所愿地埋头于时事。

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Men's hands aren't always as clean as they might be.

男人并不总是尽量让手上干干净净。

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But the frustrations will not prove as painful as they might seem.

但挫败情绪并不会像看起来那样痛苦。

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"What I think some of these terrorist group may have underestimated is that we in the west or in Russia,in this case, are perhaps not quite as soft as they might have first believed."

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Now this is-- again, testament to the fact that computers, you know, sophisticated or scary as they might seem to some, they're pretty stupid devices.

我再说一遍，事实上，电脑，你知道的，在某些人看来，很尖端，很高科技，其实它很笨的。

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It's also called historical criticism, because its ultimate goal and purpose was not just to isolate the sources, but to arrange them according to relative dates as far as they might be ascertained, and then to chart changes in Israel's religion.

还被叫作历史批判学，因为其最终目标,不仅仅是分离材料，而且要根据可以确定下来的,相对日期对其进行整理，然后追踪以色列的,宗教变更。

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So it's not really helping them against the fraud as much as they might like.

NPR: Slate's Jurisprudence: The Laws of Internet Dating

Yet alliances between companies and activists are not as strange as they might seem.

ECONOMIST: Companies as activists

It must be tempting for her to let things unfold as they might for the rest of Europe.

FORBES: How Merkel Can Lead the Euro Zone Out of Crisis