Two men who have a secret in common, and who, by a sort of tacit agreement, exchange not a word on the subject, are less rare than is commonly supposed.

两个人有个共同的秘密，而这也象一种默契一样，两人对这个问题并不交谈，而这也不象人们所想的那样比较罕见。

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Even as the Moutai distillery turns large swaths of the ancient town to rubble, it is rare to hear a disparaging word about the company.

尽管茅台酒厂将这座古镇的大片地方变成瓦砾，却几乎听不到对这家公司诋毁之词。

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On rare occasions, I will respond almost immediately to your E-mail with a one-to-two-word response. Here is a guide to those responses.

我几乎不会用一两句话立即回复你的电子邮件。

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Jenin is a rare place in the Arab world where ordinary people have a good word for Tony Blair, whose visits as envoy for the Quartet (the EU, Russia, the UN and the United States) put the city on the map.

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"That's a word that has never crossed my mind, " he says on a rare day off.

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Then the - yes I will write the word - "gaffe", which was in fact an aside during a rare presidential news conference.

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