Pay cuts, unheard of during times of growth, may even be imposed.

在经济增长时期闻所未闻的减薪，甚至都可能被强制执行。

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In its most general sense, prescriptivism is the view that one variety of language has an inherently higher value than others, and that this ought to be imposed on the whole of the speech community.

从最普遍的意义上说，规定主义指一种语言比其他语言具有更高的内在价值，而这种价值应该强加于整个语言群体。

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Peace cannot be imposed from the outside by the United States or anyone else.

和平不能由美国或其他任何国家从外部强加。

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But they say the United States is losing patience with what they see as fruitless overtures to Tehran, and they say they believe that sanctions should be imposed without delay if the long-anticipated visit to Tehran by President Lula fails to produce results.

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No condition imposed from the beginning that there must be quantized states.

一开始就没有加限制条件,就必须是基态的。

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That seems to me to be some horrible penalty you've imposed on me, that you've reduced me from being a human being, able to engage in the full range of reflection, and simply turned me into something like a rat.

更像是,强加在我身上的酷刑，我本来是一个人，能进行各种反思，却被变成一种老鼠般的生物。

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Allbaugh was quick to add that burdensome requirements would not be imposed from the top down.

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The real austerity will be imposed on taxpayers, and not only on the rich.

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Will additional merger conditions be imposed after all this time by a single state?

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