Gradually, and with little help from Rome, the American church is becoming better attuned to a flock that has become less deferential and less inclined to take things on trust.

逐渐的，在没有得到罗马帮助的情况下，美国教会正在逐渐协调合那些越来越不尊重教会、不信任教会的教民的关系。

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This step may sound overly deferential, but it's a smart way to give the powerful person psychological safety and control.

这一步听起来可能过于顺从，但这是给强势者心理安全感和控制力的聪明方法。

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Several of the men interviewed say that the fighters were extremely deferential to the apparent leader on site, a portly, bespectacled man who was referred to as either the "sheikh" or the "doctor.

一些接受采访的人说，这些战士对现场的一位显然是领导的人极为恭敬，他们称这个身村魅梧的戴眼镜男子为“酋长”或“医生”。

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These new strategies present unknown and unprecedented challenges to regulators, and these new challenges call for a deferential approach.

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This conservative, hagiographic documentary is both a wistful, deferential tribute to the forever-young Dylan and a sad admission that Scor-sese, in effect, has always been old.

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Forty years ago political parties could still count on a mostly deferential media.

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