This can indicate a number of things and can also be used to consciously send messages about intent.

这可以表明很多事情，也可以用来有意识地传递关于意图的信息。

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She used to be so fussy about her appearance.

她过去过分在意自己的外表。

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Another really interesting thing about here is it used to be a Roman cemetery.

还有一件很有趣的事情，这里曾是一个罗马墓地。

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He thought their ideas about nonviolence and disobedience could be used together to win equal rights for black Americans.

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There will always he suggests appear to be something ad hoc about the methods used in the study of politics.

主题允许多少精准性？我们如何得知,事情总有，他也提到,总有一些事是特别的。

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I don't--I could describe you and start to think about you not as a person and language can be used for this.

我可以把你描述成，或想象成,不是一个人，而我可以利用语言做到这点。

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This is then used to warm the gorilla enclosure, "but could be used to heat about 25 homes, " he adds.

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We're considering how and when this can best be used to bring about any necessary increase in supply or reduction in demand.

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"If you are a very privacy conscious person and you don't want people to know more information about you than you want to give them, then you should be worried about the use of cookies, because they can be used to collect more information about you than you necessarily know about at the time, " she said.

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