Although certain coastal areas are heavily defended, these defences do not seem to be in any great depth, and it would appear that the Germans have concentrated their defence on the beaches.

虽然某些沿海地区有重兵把守，但这些防御工事似乎没有任何深度，这样看来，德军把海滩当作了自己防御的重点。

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Whereas it is always better to be sighted than not, people who have lost vision do have certain extraordinary abilities that can give them advantages over sighted people.

然而看得见总是更好的，但失去视力的人们也需要特定的超常能力来做得赶得上拥有视力的人。

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And contrary to popularbelief, a simple way to do that might be to close certain roads.

然而与通常人们认为的相反，有种简单的方法只需关闭某些道路就可以了。

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Or perhaps, you could be trying to explain that you don't know whether you can do something or not by a certain date.

又或者，你正在试图解释你没法确定你是否能在一个指定日期前做完某件事。

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First, when someone will only do something under the threat of aggression, we can be reasonably certain that he or she would have preferred to do something else.

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