There is no hope for us, and no need of pity-certainly not from you, who never lift a hand to help us.

我们根本就没有希望，也不需要你们的怜悯，你们从来都没想过要帮我们一把。

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He had seen her lift her eyes, and waved his hand urbanely to her, while he blew her a kiss.

他看见她抬起头来，向她送过来一个飞吻，有礼貌地向她挥着手。

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Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand.

你的儿女必归与别国的民。你的眼目终日切望，甚至失明，你手中无力拯救。

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And it is this anti-colonialist paradigm that has guided Obama's courtship of the Syrian, Turkish and Iranian regimes and his unwillingness to lift a hand to help the March 14 movement in Lebanon.

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For a slave to lift his hand "against the sacred temple of a white man's body, " even in self-defense, was an act of rebellion.

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I, on the other hand, accepted a lift from Birch the next day to a nearby bus stop.

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