Or is it just a matter of the food chain?

或者说这仅仅是食物链的问题？

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It's surely only a matter of time before he is found, isn't it?

找到他只是个时间问题，对不对？

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It is a matter of the utmost urgency to find out what has happened to these people.

当务之急是弄清楚这些人出了什么事。

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He says,for now,it is a matter of getting them into the program, not where they might go when the graduate.

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Let's assume that we know that this thing is going to be paid, so it's a matter of simple time.

我们假设这份承诺会被兑现,这只是时间的问题

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And details aside,death is a matter of the body breaking, so that it's no longer able to engage in P-functioning.

除开其他细节，死亡只是肉体的破坏，以至于不能再实施人格功能。

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As Andrew Mathews, an anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, puts it, it is not just a matter of constructing a switch, it is a matter of constructing a hand you trust to flip it.

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It is matter of taste.

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It is a matter of fact that Mr. Ren is just one of the many CEOs around the world who have served in the military, and it is also a matter of fact that Huawei has only offered telecommunications equipment that is in line with civil standards.

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