"I don't think they will be major players" is about the politest comment your correspondent heard.

“我不希望他们会成为主要竞争者。”是记者听到的最礼貌的评论。

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I hope the voices of young people will be heard at the Summit and in the run-up to it.

我希望在首脑会议上及其筹备阶段中听到青年人的声音。

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Surely there will be new titles I have not heard of; but here are a few that look promising.

肯定会有一些书名我没有听说过；但是这里有一些似乎很不错的书。

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Another thing that I will be talking about is less important to this course but you have heard of this: the subprime crisis.

我要讲的另一个问题,在这门课里相对不是那么重要,你们听过这个词吗,"次贷危机"

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The more people I can educate the fewer stories like the one I heard this week will be told.

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"I think that their voices will be heard louder and clearer, " City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez said in an interview.

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"And how they approach and deal with people who are, through peaceful means, trying to be heard will, I think, send a pretty clear signal to the international community about what Iran is and is not, " Obama said.

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