If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students' academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing.

如果该学区发现家庭作业对于孩子的学业是不重要的，它就应该减少或者免除家庭作业，而不是让它们几乎一文不值。

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If the name is not right then speech will not be in order, and if speech is not in order then nothing will be accomplished.

名不正则言不顺， 言不顺则事不成!

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Do you not know that every sentence has a subject, and that, if the subject were nothing, the sentence would be nonsense?

难道你不知道每一句话都有一个主语吗？那么，如果主语都不存在，句子不是就没有意义了吗？

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His main thesis seems to be that if states simply do nothing, the federal government will not be able to impose a federal program on them.

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"It could be safe if you do nothing and our challenge in the US is not going to be easy at all, " Mr Son told a news conference.

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The total energy system cost of tackling climate change could be similar to doing nothing and may even be cheaper than remaining fossil fuel dependent (even if fossil fuel prices are not high).

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