For Rinke, who grew up in Zimbabwe but has lived here since 1981, the lessons of the past are that race relations need not be a lovefest so long as there is civility.

对于林克这种出生在津巴布韦、但在1981年就生活在南非的人来说，过去的教训标明，种族关系的调和不需要大张旗鼓，只需要和平共处。

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I had worked on it until well past midnight; it was full of what I felt was good rhetoric and specific policy proposals, but still too long, so I cut a few lines.

对这个声明，我一直推敲到前一天深夜，我自我感觉，其中充满了令人满意的华丽词藻和具体的政策提案，但篇幅仍太长，所以我删掉了几个句子。

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In the past I always held that as long as you tried your best, everything was possible. But now it turns out not to be so.

以前老觉得，只要自己用心了，没有做不成的事情，现在看来真的不是这样。

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Spitzer is relying on a strategy he has used so successfully in the recent past: Find a long-established but shady-sounding practice in an industry, expose it as a scandal, single out a villain and threaten criminal prosecution, flushing out the scapegoat and extracting a sizable settlement.

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