It is perfectly all right, now and then, for a human to be possessed by the urge to speak, and to speak while others remain silent.

有时候，一个人被说话的冲动所支配，在别人保持沉默的时候说话，这是完全正常的。

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It was believed that people could be possessed by evil spirits.

以前，人们相信人有可能被恶魔缠身。

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Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?

一个多年前藏有少量毒品的妇女是否应该永远不能获得护士执照？

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Milton has shown so much promise. He possessed so many obvious talents that could be poured into the profession for which he was so clearly suited the profession of the ministry but Milton was remaining at his father's house in what seemed like a perpetual state of humiliating self-infantilization.

弥尔顿表现出了很大的决心,他拥有那么多,这个职业需要的天赋,例如牧师,而弥尔顿却选择呆在他父亲的房子里,像是一种永远羞耻的不成熟状态。

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Sociologist Dr Richard Hoskins, of Kings College London, recently returned from doing research on the issue in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he found thousands of children were believed to be possessed.

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Mackinder saw history being made on the Northwest frontier of India, but the Empire bled to death on the fields of France in fear of what might happen elsewhere, and by the time it got to India it handed over that frontier, out of exhaustion and a growing reluctance to fight for a possession that did not want to be possessed.

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While this, in theory, can be audited, in practice the knowledge to do so is unlikely to be possessed by the auditor.

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