“我们继续演奏之前一定要为吉他定音，”他坚持说。

"We do tune our guitars before we go on," he insisted.

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就像吸烟一样，现在来自许多方面的声音坚持认为，有关全球变暖的科学是不完整的，在我们确定之前，继续向空气中排放烟雾是可以的。

Just as on smoking, voices now come from many quarters insisting that the science about global warming is incomplete, that it's OK to keep pouring fumes into the air until we know for sure.

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如果我想继续坚持自己的创业梦想，我没有其他选择。

If I want to continue ahead with this dream of owning my own business, I have no other choice.

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Your soul is in deep danger if you indeed continue to lead the life that you have mainly been leading up to now, and those two things are in conflict.

如果你继续坚持你一贯的意愿,想要主导你自己的生活的话,你的灵魂将陷入险境,这两种意识总是起冲突

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