The area does not consist entirely of rich people, despite popular belief.

这个地方住的不全是有钱人，虽然大家都这么认为。

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Despite popular belief, Mother's day is not just a holiday invented by Hallmark, but rather it is a holiday dating back several millennia.

尽管普遍的信仰，母亲节不仅仅是一个节日发明的标志，而是一个假期可以追溯到好几千年以前。

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But despite popular belief, subprime mortgages with exotic features had little to do with the housing bubble and the current debt overload weighing down U.S. households.

不过普遍被接受的观点认为，有毒的次级债并不会对住房泡沫以及如今压垮美国家庭的债务重负起到太大作用。

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However, despite popular belief to the contrary, credit officers do want to approve deals.

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Despite popular belief, Columbus (1451-1506) did not "discover" America.

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The animals were hunted to satisfy the demand for horn, which was used to fashion handles for ceremonial Yemeni daggers and as an ingredient to reduce fever in oriental medicine (not as an aphrodisiac, despite popular belief).

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