Serbian and EU officials are at pains to insist that there is no link between Kosovo's future and Serbia's EU aspirations, but in the long run there must be.

塞尔维亚和欧盟官员煞费苦心地强调，科索沃的未来和塞尔维亚对加入欧盟的热望之间没有联系，但是从长远来看一定如此。

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I actually found my ergonomic chair at work to be the place I felt most comfortable, and I was able to ignore my aches and pains as long as I kept busy.

我发现工作时坐的人体工程学座椅是我觉得最舒服的地方，并且当我繁忙的时候可以忽视身体的疼痛。

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Shall we with pains erect a heaven of blue glass over ourselves, though when it is done we shall be sure to gaze still at the true ethereal heaven far above, as if the former were not?

我们是否要费力去在头顶上面建立一个蓝色玻璃的天空呢，虽然完成后我们还要凝望那遥远得多的真实的天空，把前者视作并未建立过的一样？

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Worrying that this could also be an issue at the Cineplex, the filmmakers have taken great pains to make The Golden Compass amusing, exciting and grand without ever raising anyone's hackles.

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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart may be brief Berman recalls a few tracks getting accidentally erased during the recording process in his friend's basement but at just 34 minutes, it begs to be put on repeat.

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Yet, encouragingly, donor governments have so far been at pains to promise that tsunami-related aid will not be at the expense of existing aid budgets.

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