Yet so slippery—and thus convenient to politicians—is the English language that a single word encompasses both, and in doing so loses any claim to meaning.

英语非常狡猾-因此对于政客们来说非常方便-一个词涵将这两种意义都涵盖了，并且在行动中失去其中的一种意义。

youdao

I do not claim we had the last word on the matter, but it is just wrong to say we missed the obvious point that Paul raises.

我没有声称我们得出最后结论，但是，说我们忽略了保罗提出的明显的一点是错误的。

youdao

Ignatius can even claim, for himself, the status that he, especially to his martyrdom is the Word of God.

伊格那丢甚至自称，自己的殉道是上帝的话语。

youdao

This would seem to support Ben Bradshaw's (Lab, Exeter) claim at the beginning of his debate on regional pay that "a single word from the minister today and this madness can be stopped".

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Even if one disconnects this research from accountability with sales though why anyone would do that escapes us to claim that the rabid loyalty that characterizes Apple is not as strong as that of Microsoft is, in a word, unbelievable.

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His claim that he did not break his word appears to rest on the argument that dealing in shares in someone else's name does not amount to dealing at all.

ECONOMIST: Lord Archer