You could be a mayor or a senator or a Supreme Court justice—but you might not know that until you join the student government or the debate team.

你可以成为一位市长、一名参议员或者一位最高法院法官——而这也只有在你参与学生会或者辩论队的事情时你才能知道。

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But it has drawn a fierce debate among young people.

然而，这件事在年轻人当中引发了一场激烈的争论。

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It's a powerful argument, but it highlights a paradox at the heart of the debate on climate-change adaptation.

这是一个有力的论据，但它突出了有关适应气候变化辩论的核心矛盾。

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But it is only a beginning. John Kress of the Smithsonian says that, while science accepts evolution, debate continues.

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Now it's--I think it's still the dominant academic view, but there's a big debate and there are partisans on both sides.

现在，这种观点-我认为仍然是主流的学术观点，但是对此学术界也存在激烈的争论,并且双方都有自己的阵营。

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I didn't get into it at all in this experiment--in this lecture-- but there's an interesting debate going on about love and many other emotions between people who take a kind of evolutionary perspective on these states versus people who take what might be called a more socially constructed perspective.

我没有在这讲座中的实验中涉及-,但是这是关于爱,和其他情感有趣的争论,有人从进化论的角度来探讨,还有人可能从,更像社会建构的立场出发。

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But a debate within the government over Eskom's future, and the role of the private sector, also held things up.

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But a debate drags on over promised reparations for the worst afflicted.

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Parliament is expected to approve the legislation, but a debate and vote has been repeatedly delayed, including on Wednesday at the request of Prime Minister Mohammed Basindwa, a senior opposition figure.

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