In our parents' generation, it was believed that a girl should be a little fatter, because it meant that she lived the better life, while the thin girl would be thought to be lacking of happiness.

在躾我们父母那一代，人们认为女孩子应该胖点，因为那意味着她过得好，然而瘦的女孩就会被认为缺少幸福。

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In our parents' generation, it was believed that a girl should be a little fatter, because it meant that she lived the better life, while the thin girl would be thought to be lacking of happiness.

在我们父母那一代，人们认为女孩子应该胖点，因为那意味着她过得好，然而瘦的女孩就会被认为缺少幸福。

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A country lacking short-term liquidity would be loth to approach the IMF for a loan under the "stand-by arrangement", the mainstay of the IMF's crisis lending.

一个缺乏短期流动性的国家可能不愿向国际货币基金组织寻求“备用信贷协议”——IMF 危机贷款的中流砥柱。

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"It occurred to me that something that seems to be kind of lacking in so-called indie rock these days is an element of sex and danger, " Everett says.

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Plenty of committed tackles followed and neither side could be accused of lacking effort, but Manchester City's equaliser was as shambolic as Cousin's opener.

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While TrustedReviews found the sound quality decent and some other features, including wireless reception, to be good, the reviewer also found the WACS700 to be lacking in a number of key features, including support for DRM'd files, slow ripping (as long as 20 minutes per CD), and the size of the hard drive (40GB is kind of skimpy).

ENGADGET: Philips Streamium WACS700/05 wireless music system reviewed