How hard it was to be sincere, not to make the emotion more beautiful and more violent or the circumstance more romantic.

要做到真诚是多么难啊，不能使感情变得更美好、更激烈，不能使环境变得更浪漫。

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Over the past few months, it has been working hard, with the help of media consultants, to play down its cosy reputation in favour of something more academic and serious.

在过去的几个月里，在媒体顾问的帮助下，它一直在努力工作，以淡化其轻松愉快的印象，打造更学术化、更严肃的形象。

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Everyone at the site worked hard to finish building the tunnel on time and more than 10 latest techniques were developed while the workers were doing this great project.

现场的每个人都努力工作，按时完成隧道的建设，在工人们进行这项伟大工程的同时，还开发了10多种最新的技术。

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The Conference Board said more Americans believed business conditions were bad and that jobs were hard to get.

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Ultimately the success of in-vitro meat may be less about consumer sensibilities and more about the hard realities of feeding a growing global population in a finite world.

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If we are to retain that position in the 21st century, we must open our doors not only to family members and asylum seekers, but to more of the talented and hard-working people our economy needs to grow.

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So far, it is still Mr McCain's plan, which explicitly aims to pay for the transition to a partly privatised retirement system and places more emphasis on debt reduction, that remains the more hard-headed on the Republican side.

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