Nothing could be done without her say-so.

未经她准许，什么都不可以做。

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“Nothing will be done if people say the problem is impossible to fix,” he said.

“如果人们说这个问题是不可解决的，那就什么都不会做，”他说。

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Not at all, "I say, though the truth is that I was done in a Toronto hospital when I was just a few days old and naturally I remember nothing."

我说。而实情是我是在多伦多医院做的，而那是我出生才几天，自然什么都不记得。

youdao

How are decisions made? Does the king simply say, "Do it," And it gets done? Nothing like that.

如何做出决策呢,是国王一拍脑袋说,"就这么定了",是这样吗,绝对不是

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If, on the other hand, it is what Gadamer would call a "bad prejudice"-- that is to say, some aspect of my subjectivity that nothing could possibly be done - with in thinking about and interpreting the text-- then you throw it out.

如果情况不是这样，而是Gadamer所说的“不好的偏见“,也就是说我主观的想法,解读文本,并不能有任何效果-,你可以不用理会它。

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She has done nothing, they say, to pursue the bankers who bilked the treasury of billions at the time of the financial crisis.

ECONOMIST: Indonesia: Trading on her father's image | The

Earlier today we heard an IRS official say she'd done nothing wrong and then plead the Fifth.

NPR: With White House Bogged Down By Scandal, GOP Looks For Boost

It would be unfair to say that the government has done nothing.

ECONOMIST: Almost a year on, the wheels seem to be falling off