With support from Mr Obama, who inherited (and publicly embraced) a losing cause from his predecessor, General McChrystal first rewrote the campaign plan.

奥巴马先生从前任那里继承了失败事业。由于得到了奥巴马先生的支持，麦克·克里斯托将军重新制定了战役计划。

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You're able to tease apart those items which truly have the ability to advance your cause from the ones that are just stressing you out because they're yelling for your immediate attention.

从那些叫嚷着立即去做并使你精疲力尽的事情中，你可以将能够提升事业的任务梳理出来。

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That pushed flu from the third leading cause of death to the fifth.

这将流感从第三大致死原因推到了第五位。

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"This is inviting people to take up the cause from now on.

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It doesn't, in other words, derive from an antecedent single cause as an effect.

换句话说，它不是，作为结果来自单一的先行的原因。

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All of Milton's labors in the cause of liberating England from the tyranny of monarchy had in some way - could be construed as having been useless.

弥尔顿为把英国从君主暴政解放出来,所做的努力在某种程度上,可以说是付之东流了。

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It failed on the issue of the controversial Sixth Amendment to the constitution, which barred any Sri Lankan supporting a separatist cause from holding public offices or contesting elections.

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But in the end, Ohanian (who, at 29, couldn't shoot for the U.S. Senate for another year at any rate) said he thinks he can do more for the cause from where he sits now.

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Because of that, she said, the partisan divide should not dissuade anyone with a cause from getting involved in politics and she hinted strongly that a divisive atmosphere would not stop her in any future endeavor.

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