Primo de Rivera himself was a benevolent and sincere paternalist.

普里莫·德里韦拉本人是个仁慈而真诚的家长式人物。

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The pleasure obtained from a benevolent act is often relevant, for example.

例如，从一项乐善好施的行为中取得的乐趣就往往与之相关。

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He's devotion keeps my girls on a benevolent leash, one that hangs quietly at their side as they trot along but occasionally yanks them back to safety and solid ground.

他的忠诚使我的女儿们像一条仁慈的链子，当她们小跑时，这条链子静静地挂在她们身边，但偶尔会把她们拉回安全、坚实的地面。

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You know, one of the things that I say and only half ingest, is that I know of no more selfish act and a benevolent act.

我说到的一件事，只说了一半意思，即最自私的所为就是善举。

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But there's a theoretical framework, and it will catch up with the French monarchs, among others, later-- that the ruler must be a father, a benevolent figure.

不过,有一种理论框架,使法国的君主终自食恶果,这种理论认为统治者必是父亲一样善良的人

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At a time when cost-cutting pressure has pitted management against labor in newsrooms everywhere, Graham is regarded by his employees as a benevolent figure, a throwback to an earlier era of corporate paternalism.

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That wish for a benevolent and omniprotective parent was a political and emotional fantasy, as Roth himself ruefully understood but perhaps also an inescapable fantasy of a kind that all of us at some level share.

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These are the things every author craves most, and while the first two require the favor of a benevolent God, the third can be had by anyone with the ability to write a check a pretty big one.

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