He beat the water with his paws to hold himself up, but the harder he tried, the deeper he sank.

他用爪子拍打水面，想让自己浮起来，可是越用力，沉下去得越深。

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He spoke well to begin with, but then started rambling and repeating himself.

开始他说得很好，但是后来开始闲扯，一句话翻来覆去地讲。

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He may be happy with the flowering of new thinking, but he has yet to contribute much to it himself.

他也许对新思想的盛行感到高兴，但他自己还没有为此作出多大贡献。

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Mister Ramirez might not have been able to express himself in English, but he could do so with his art.

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One who concerns himself with it more than the subject is an artist. But remember we are still talking merely of the raw material of poetry.

更多的考虑形式而不是内容的是,艺术家，但是记着我们还是谈论着,诗歌的原始形式。

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So Lycidas was published along, as you know, with the other poems about Edward King in 1637, but Milton himself publishes the poem a second time in his own volume of poems that he publishes in 1645.

是和1637年其他写到爱德华金的诗，一道出版的，但是弥尔顿自己又把这首诗,在他1645年出版的个人诗集里刊登了一次。

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Thomas struck the upright with a penalty attempt five minutes before the break but redeemed himself with a minute to go after Scott Mathie was tackled late.

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It is just as plausible to argue that the fault lies not with the Starr investigation but with the president himself.

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But contrasting himself with the 1990s remains essential to his political appeal.

ECONOMIST: A once and future president seems confident��too confident