We have all heard of toadstools and know that they are poisonous, but what many people don't know is that a toadstool is actually a mushroom.

我们都听说过伞菌并且知道它们都是有毒的，但是很多人并不知道伞菌也是蘑菇的一种。

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The problem some people have with homework is not that they find it too hard, or that it takes too long, but that they forget what they have to do and for when.

有些人在做作业时遇到的问题不是他们觉得太难，或者作业时间太长，而是他们忘记了必须做什么以及什么时候做。

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Some people are good at talking, but what they have done or are doing is the real proof.

一些人能言善辩，但他们曾做的或正在做的事情才是真实的证据。

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But what about people in rural or underdeveloped areas who may have no way to get on the Internet?

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But, given that, they're about the best we have and our best judge about what people might eat.

但尽管如此,这些大概还是目前的最佳方案,也是目前对饮食最合理的评价标准了

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But there are a variety of things about people who can communicate from the dead or ghosts or seances or what have you.

但仍有很多关于,有人能和死人,或鬼魂,或者降神会交流之类的传言

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In other words, if the people have a say, but what the people have to say is anti-American or anti-American interest, we're much less interested in democracy than we are in simply having a friend who, in fact, might be ruling in a way that's authoritarian.

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But what of those people who have outlasted their quota of threescore years and ten only to be kept in a state of half-life by the skills of medicine?

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And not just "token" positions -- positions where your face is there but you don't really have much say -- but actually positions where people have a say in what goes on, and people have the ear of the president and make some serious contributions.

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